- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton_Beatrice
- provenance
- wedding gift to Alton and Beatrice Cardinal 1946
- condition
- excellent
- disposition
- given to Carol Anne Grady 2005
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton_Beatrice
- provenance
- made by Alton Cardinal, probably in 1970s or 1980s
- condition
- excellent
- disposition
- currently owned as of April 2015
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton_Beatrice
- provenance
- unknown
- note
- cooking time established by depth of water using marks on central tube, whistle at top signals when water at full boil
- condition
- excellent
- disposition
- currently owned as of April 2015
- category
- art
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton
- provenance
- made by Alton Cardinal for Beatrice Cardinal in 1984
- maker_mark
- autograph notations by artist "1984", "ALC", "Cedar and Balsa"
- disposition
- given to Carol Anne Grady 2005
- category
- art
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton
- provenance
- made by Alton Cardinal for Beatrice Cardinal, date unknown
- note
- displayed with wooden plums and wooden fruit bowl
- disposition
- given to Carol Anne Grady 2005
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Gilbert
- provenance
- owned by Gilbert Cardinal and retained by the family
- note
- large size 1 dollar silver certificate, 1923, M19174682B
- notebook_reference
-
OldThings.html#billfold
Billfold and $1 Bill
Owned by Gilbert H. Cardinal. [Large size bill; 1923 silver certificate.]
- disposition
- currently owned, kept with important papers
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Gilbert
- provenance
- used by Gilbert Cardinal during Spanish American War
- note
- Gilbert saw little action, military or otherwise
- notebook_reference
-
OldThings.html#diary
Diary
Gilbert H. Cardinal
Mostly during War with Spain (1898). He served in Porto Rica [sic].)
- disposition
- sold 2005 $75
- category
- fieldtools
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Gilbert
- provenance
- tools of Gilbert Cardinal prior to 1920, then tools of Alton Cardinal
- 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)
- disposition
- unknown, may have been stolen winter 1992 from cabin at woods
- category
- shoptools
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton
- provenance
- unknown; property of Alton Cardinal, then shop of Peter Cardinal
- note
- marked "Alty"
- disposition
- currently owned as of January 2014
