Buick automobile; Automobiles -- History; Nineteen tens; Transportation -- History
In 1911, you could buy a Buick Model 14 "Bug" with wooden body for $550.00. This included the rubber top, oil lamps, gas headlights, horn and repair outfit. To know when you reached your top cruising speed of 30 miles per hour, you needed...
Frogs; Frogs in art; Merry-go-round; Merry-go-round - art; Nineteen tens
A frog who wears clothes? The Herschell-Spillman Company made a menagerie of carousel animals including roosters, ostriches, cats, chickens and dogs in addition to this 1914 frog. The only company to make green frogs, the company hand carved their...
German toy makers used the abundant wood of the Black Forest to fashion almost any toy under the sun out of wood. The Elastolin Company made this barn and animals about 1910. Toys like this farm playset have helped generations of children explore...
Dolls; World War 1939-1945; Lithuania -- History -- German occupation, 1941-1944
This particular doll was made by Sofia Rukuira while in a Soviet Union labor camp in 1944. Losing her home, Sofia was moved to one of these camps along with her husband, Anton, and two sons. All except one son survived the ordeal and moved to...
Hundreds of mechanical washing machines were designed in the first half of the 19th century, but they were hand powered. The earliest models rubbed clothes to clean them; later designs featured mechanisms that moved the clothes through the water....
