- 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
- Ferslev
- provenance
- purchased by Niels and Clara Ferslev in 1919 for their daughter Beatrice
- notebook_reference
-
OldThings.html#child_chairs
Child Chairs
The four chairs have interesting histories.
The green straight chair was bought by her parents for my wife, Beatrice Ferslev, when she was four years old (in 1919). It was used specifically for her to sit on in the one-seated family automobile while her older sister sat between the parents and the younger sister sat on mother's lap.
The other three chairs were given to me after my *cousin's children outgrew them (about 1915). The training chair was a brown color – stain and varnish –; we never had the tray. The "kitchen" chair was red enamel. I remember the rocker as yellow – probably a stained or natural finish. When Uncle Abe Frei brought the training chair from Spokane, Washington, out to the ranch on Indian Prairie, he was embarassed; so he put it in a burlap bag. I named the chairs for ranch horses –
Major
(training chair),Queen
(kitchen), andFlo
(rocker) and drove them with string lines. The chair backs and rear legs still show the wear from being dragged across the floor. I still refer to them by name.* Eva Cady Robinson - disposition
- given to Carol Anne Grady 2007
- 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
- art
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton
- provenance
- made by Alton Cardinal for Peter Cardinal in 1984
- note
- one of several similar sets most made for ministers including several at St Paul's United Methodist Church
- maker_mark
- each piece marked "ALC", "1984", "MAPLE"
- condition
- very good
- disposition
- currently owned as of January 2014
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Gilbert
- provenance
- household of Gilbert and Lillie Cardinal from 1901, then household of Alton Cardinal, then household of Peter Cardinal
- notebook_reference
-
OldThings.html#bedroom
Bedroom Set
The set – bed, dresser, comode – was new when my parents (Gilbert and Lillie Cardinal) were married in 1901. The bed no longer exists. The set is made of cherry wood. The dresser originally had a mirror in a frame so that the mirror could be tilted. My mother removed the frame and hung the mirror on the wall in the 1920's. The frame is gone, but the mirror was left in attic at 132 S. Oneida St. until Carl Sippel gave it to me in 1985. The bevel-edge mirror has a broken-out section which my mother concealled with picture post cards.
- disposition
- currently owned as of January 2014
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Gilbert
- provenance
- unknown, see notebook entry for story
- notebook_reference
-
OldThings.html#cleaver
Butcher's Clever with sword handle
Used in Napolean's army.
The sword handle was probably a replacement, used instead of a regular handle because no other was available.
It was later found in a Wisconsin blacksmith's trash pail.
The
rescuer
brought it home and his wife used it to cut kindling. (Early 1800's.)It travelled with them to Washington [state] and back, when it got its real workout chopping wood (1930's).
- disposition
- sold 2005 $32.50
- category
- officetools
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton
- provenence
- purchased by Alton Cardinal possibly around 1933, household of Alton Cardinal, then household of Peter Cardinal
- note
- marked "Alton Cardinal Green Bay, Wis." in calligraphy on case
- maker_mark
- "K&ECO" on case, "Keuffel & Esser Co." "N.Y." "Pat. 1,875,927" "Made in U.S.A." and "<40970>"
- condition
- good
- disposition
- currently owned as of January 2018
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Peter
- provenance
- artist unknown, date unknown, household of Eva Willard in 1960s, given to Peter Cardinal
- condition
- very good
- disposition
- currently owned as of January 2014
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Peter
- provenance
- made by Alton Cardinal for Peter Cardinal, probably in 1970s
- note
- carved from wood of an American elm tree from 1093 Reed St (Green Bay) of the same age as Peter Cardinal
- maker_mark
- ELM
- condition
- excellent
- disposition
- currently owned as of April 2015
- category
- shoptools
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton
- provenance
- acquired by Alton Cardinal between 1927 and 1931, later workshop of Peter Cardinal
- notebook_reference
-
OldThings.html#shop_tools_2
Shop Tools
Acquired by me during high school years (1927-31) or before.
- Work bench (made for me by my father)
- Vise
-
Claw hammer
(marked
Alty
on handle) - Push drill (
Mr. Punch
) - Auger bits for brace (6/16″, 8/16″, 10/16″)
- Countersink bit
- Twist bit (¼)
- Brace
- Marking guage
- Try square
- Large screw driver (square shank, wood handle) (bought for me by my Uncle Sam Cardinal)
- Screw driver set (3 in 1)
- Wooden handle containing may tools
- Jack plane
- Carpenter chisels (½″ ¾″)
- Spoke shave
- Hand cranked grinder
- maker_mark
- "No. 5", "MADE IN USA"
- condition
- excellent
- disposition
- stayed with Reed Street house 2022
