- category
- fieldtools
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton
- provenence
- origin unknown, garden tools of Alton Cardinal, then Peter Cardinal
- note
- normal hoe reshaped by wear and filing by Alton Cardinal over decades of use
- disposition
- currently owned as of August 2014
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton_Beatrice
- provenance
- unknown
- notebook_reference
-
OldThings.html#chamber_pot
Chamber Pot
Used by family of Alton Cardinal on trips, etc. 1950. [Johns Bros, England]
- disposition
- unknown
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton_Beatrice
- provenance
- household of Alton and Beatrice Cardinal, purchased early 1960s
- note
- note lacing through the frames
- note
- AF&H was American Hoe and Fork
- maker_mark
- "[AF]H CO WALLINGFORD VT US"
- condition
- excellent
- disposition
- currently owned as of July 2016
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton_Beatrice
- provenence
- household of Alton Cardinal (1926), then Alton and Beatrice Cardinal, then Peter Cardinal
- title
- The History of the American People
- author
- Charles A. Beard and William C. Bagley
- publication
- New York: The Macmillan Company. 1924.
- note
- flyleaf inscribed with price "1.32", name "Alton Lyle Cardinal", and date "Feb. 1st, 1926"
- disposition
- currently owned as of April 2017
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Ferslev
- provenance
- household of Niels Ferslev
- notebook_reference
-
OldThings.html#shaving_mug
Silver Shaving Mug
Niels L. Ferslev
Mug contained bar soap: add water, work up lather with shaving brush. When finished, dump water, leaving soap.
- disposition
- unknown
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Ferslev
- provenance
- unknown (1865), Ferslev household, then Grady household
- note
- engraved in Danish "L Ferslev / D. B. / Ferslev /Order[...] / 1865"
- disposition
- owned by Carol Anne Grady as of January 2014
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Ferslev
- provenance
- unknown, thought to have been in household of Lucy Doty Jeffcott, then household of Clara Jeffcott Ferslev, later household of Carol Anne Grady
- note
- scene of renaissance gentlemen on one side each
- maker_mark
- "Royal Bayreuth", knight's helmet between pair of crowned lions with shields "P" and "T", scroll "PRIV. 1794", "BAVARIA"
- condition
- excellent
- disposition
- owned by Carol Anne Grady as of January 2014
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Gilbert
- provenance
- unknown origin, household of Lillie Strahl Cardinal, then household of Alton and Beatrice Cardinal
- notebook_reference
-
OldThings.html#sewing_rocker
Sewing Chair
This low wooden rocker belonged to my mother, Lillie Strahl Cardinal (1877- 1948). I don't know when or how it was acquired, but I remember it as an old chair when I was a child.
Originally, the chair was finished with a dark brown stain and had a brown cane seat (fragments of the cane are still there). In the late 1920's, Mother installed a
dime store
plywood replacement seat. At some time, one of the six back splints was broken; I removed the opposite one to maintain symmetry when I painted the chair gray in the 1950's. - disposition
- unknown
- category
- officetools
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton
- provenance
- purchased by Alton Cardinal possibly during college, household of Alton Cardinal, then household of Peter Cardinal
- disposition
- unknown
- category
- fieldtools
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Gilbert
- provenance
- Chicago and North Western Railroad until discarded in 1920s, then tools of Gilbert Cardinal, then tools of Alton Cardinal, then tools of Peter Cardinal
- note
- "C&NW" stamped into wood on handle below handgrip
- notebook_reference
-
OldThings.html#field_tools
Field Tools
These tools belonged to my father, Gilbert Cardinal, prior to 1920. Most of them were probably in 1917 when we moved onto a farm at Oneida, Wisconsin.
- Double-bitted axe (handle replaced about 1965)
- Scythe
- Wooden hand hay rake (I turned replacement teeth in 1985)
- Garden spade
- Two three-tined pitch forks
- Corn knife
- Post hole digger
- Buck saw
- Lantern
- Short-handled square shovel (this was discarded by C&NW Ry in 1920's)
- maker_mark
- SOLID STEEL 2
- disposition
- currently owned as of May 2024
