Hey! Crank up the old Evinrude and let's go fishin'!
I love this brass hurricane lamp and lap desk.
Mother's mom used to wash clothes in an iron wash pot just like this. But I'll bet she didn't have this fancy dasher.
These old iron whatsits were used to hold string. In an old store they often used what we might now call a roll of butcher's paper and string to wrap purchases. Back in the old days, tape was probably a luxury.
I remember my grandmother had one of these old toasters.
This tag was attached to a grain flail.
People who've studied martial arts may have seen something similar to this called nunchakus, an Asian version of weapon modeled after a flail. Flails were used to beat grain and separate the kernal from the husk.
This is an old fruit press. You had to line the inside wall of the press with cheesecloth, place the fruit inside, then turn the wheel.
Here are a couple more old record players. The one on the left is the earliest version and used cylinders rather than disks.
An example of fine, Native American weaving.
An old loom.
Interesting wash day implements. Kids fetched water from the well or creek two pails at a time using a yoke over their shoulders. Women boiled the water in the wash pot shown ealier, scraped a bar of lye soap on a grater to make powdered soap which they added to the boiling water, then stirred the clothes in the boiling water 'til they were sparkling clean. Really bad spots had to be removed with more soap and the rub board by hand.
When clean, the clothes were removed from the boiling water using a stick or broom handle then rinsed in cold water in one of these galvanized tubs below 'til they were ready to hang on the line for drying.
The flags of many countries flew over the Alabama gulf coast. The Spanish were first to explore but the French were first to settle until they moved on to Louisiana leaving what was then called west "Florida" to the Spanish. Later the English laid claim on the area until the Americans defeated the British in the war of 1812. In the American Civil War, the Confederacy held the area for a brief period until it was finally to return to the American flag.
The tag says, "The Original Rotary Tiller - SIMAR. A web search tells me the Simar C5 was demonstrated in the U.S. in 1927.
Surrounding the museum were many examples of fine, old farm equipment. Note the really odd stearing gear on this example.
Here's another. I don't think I've ever seen this brand before.
But here's one brand that I'll bet you've seen. I can't determine the year of manufacture. Near as I can tell it was back in the mid 1920s.
And here's a more recent vintage.
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