History August 12, 2011

Back Forward The History Collection is the museum's largest. Artifacts include a variety of items related to everyday life used at home and at work from the late 1800s through the 20th century: kerosene and electric lights; kitchen tools, equipment, and appliances; personal items (like razors, shaving mugs, combs); recreational items (such as games, radios, televisions); office-related objects and equipment (typewriters, adding machines, Dictaphones, pens, inkwells); telephones, musical instruments, medical instruments and equipment, signage, etc.