Wish List - Eidem Homestead

Can you help? We need old-fashioned household articles for the Eidem Homestead! To provide living history programs at the Eidem Homestead, certain artifacts are needed to assist the demonstrators in a realistic portrayal of the era. All artifacts for the Eidem Homestead should date from 1890-1900 or before, or be reproductions of items from the same time period.

• Bowls-cooking (crock, etc.)
• Buckets-wooden, graniteware, galvanized tin (should hold water)
• Butter crocks
• Butter mold - wood with design
• Candle holders - porcelain, tin, brass
• Canvas - new or old neutral colors - small to large pieces
• Castor set **
• Chairs for bedroom
• Child's lunch pail
• Child's table and chairs
• China cabinet
• China set, tea leaf pattern (particularly dessert plates, cups and saucers) or set of any
  appropriate pattern
• Clothes hooks (nice to fancy to screw into walls)
• Containers-tin cans, 1880-1900
• Cookie cutters - heart, gingerbread boy, etc.
• Cookie sheets
• Copper boiler and cover
• Crib or cradle **
• Crocks-of all sizes and description (20 gallon needed for sauerkraut)
• Custard cups
• Dictionary stand
• Drinking Glasses **
• Easel - for parlor **
• Fancy wicker chair-small
• Feather duster
• Feather pillows or bolster-large **
• Feather tick-double bed **
• Glass mugs
• Hall tree
• Handmade rugs-appliquéd, hooked, hand knotted, rag rugs, Persian **
• Immigrant's trunk
• Ingrain carpet, oriental
• Kerosene lamps - small with handle for carrying, etc.
• Lace curtains
• Lard pail-tin
• Large cast iron kettle to use outside on a tripod for butchering, soap, etc. (for demonstrations)
• Linens-sheets, pillow cases, dresser scarves, doilies, pillow shams
• Marbles (clays, Bennington's, swirls) - handmade               
• Occasional table for parlor
• Old clothing-shawls, skirts, blouses, dresses, men's shirts, baby clothes, baby blankets, etc.
• Old fabric
• Old magazines and newspapers (1890-1900) **
• Pans - cooking (graniteware, cast iron, etc.)
• Park bench - wooden, iron and wood - 2 or 3
• Parlor stove
• Pastry blender
• Pitcher and bowl - for washing hands (2 or more) one very plain, utilitarian **
• Pitchers-glass, pottery, china
• Plant stands
• Porch furniture - wicker or wood
• Print for wall hanging magazine rack 15" high x 20" long
• Quilts and blankets
• Salt and pepper shakers
• Secretary desk
• Sewing rocker
• Silverware (especially dessert forks and spoons)
• Single bed
• Soap molds
• Sock stretchers
• Tapestry or rope or bead curtain for parlor opening from hall
• Trays
• Trivets
• Turn-of-the-century toys - dolls, cast iron toys, games, etc.
• Vases
• Wicker fernery
• Wooden folding chairs-do not have to be old (25-50) or less **
• Zinc or stove board for under range

** - priority items

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