Henry Sheldon Museum artifact collection
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Title
Henry Sheldon Museum artifact collection
Subject
Vermont, New England and United States historical relics, curiosities and oddities
Description
These are some of the small, table-top or cabinet-display ready items in the artifact collection of what is know in 2018 as the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History. Some of these items were collected by Henry Sheldon himself in mid-19th century and displayed to the public in the 1880's.
Creator
Henry Sheldon and subsequent trustees of the museum.
Source
Henry Sheldon' personal collection, amassed over the latter 19th century, and donated items from Vermonters since that time.
Publisher
Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History
Date
1860-present
Contributor
Henry Sheldon, other Vermonters
Rights
rights held by the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History
Relation
Swift Archive and Research Center--contains the scrapbooks collected by Henry Sheldon (including an autograph collection), and donated by subsequent VermontersÂ
Format
photos (posted online) of objects housed in the museum collection
Language
English
Type
museum objects, curios, relics, oddities, marvels
Identifier
Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History
Coverage
1850-1925
Collection Items
Little cup made of part of the Alden house built in Boston around 1600
wooden cup carved of wood taken from the Alden House of Duxbury Mass.
18th Century Pocket Compass
This compass belonged to Ebenezer Markham, who came to the United States from Canada in 1783. It was later given to Henry Sheldon by Markham's grandson in 1900.
Cigar holder from a crippled chicken bone
This cigar holder was made from the leg bone of a crippled chicken.
19th century ivory and metal clock
Small clock with interworkings made of ivory and metal crafted in Middlebury, Vermont around the year 1865.
Looking glass shard from Mayflower era
A broken piece of a looking glass that was brought from England by the first English settlers in the New World
Little cup made from part of the Alden House in Boston
This little wooden cup was carved from a wood that was used to build the Alden House in Boston in 1660.
Teeth drawn from the Mouth of Henry Sheldon, Collected and cataloged by himself
A set of five teeth, accompanied by two notes written by Henry Sheldon (prior home of said teeth): one written in 1897 detailing the order and occasion in which each tooth was pulled. Another written in 1899 giving the reason for pulling the last…