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Four of these buttons were recovered from the Thomas Johnson/Henry Williams Dugout site during the 2006 excavations by Washburn University. They were later donated to the Kansas Historical Society. The button on the right was recovered during excavations at the site by the Kansas Archaeology Training Program staff and participants. This domestic site was related to the settlement of Nicodemus, Kansas, an all black community in western Kansas. The buttons (from left to right) are: a large 4-hole shell button (perhaps for a coat), a glass 4-hole dish button, a small 4-hole shell button (child's size), a blue and white mottled glass 3-hole button (child's size), and a 2-hole shell button.
Date: 1877-1910
Item Number: 442135
Call Number: 14GH102-2006-123-468; -112-232; -40-464; -108-228; 14GH102-464-14
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 442135
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Clothing
Home and Family - Daily life - Housework - Sewing
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Thomas Johnson/Henry Williams dugout
People - African Americans
People - African Americans - Exodusters
Places - Cities and towns - Nicodemus
Places - Counties - Graham
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
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