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Comb
Date: between 1941 and 1945
Small black plastic comb. Colonel James C. Hughes used this comb while being held as a Japanese Prisoner of War during World War II. Born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1888, Hughes served in the Mexican Border Conflict, World War I, and World War II. During the latter conflict, he commanded a Philippine regiment (Filipino soldiers led by American officers), which surrendered in 1942 on the Bataan peninsula. Hughes spent the next 41 months in various Japanese P.O.W. camps. He was liberated by Russian forces at Camp Hoten, Manchuria, in 1945. Hughes died in 1964 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Ivory or Bone Comb from the Mine Creek Civil War Battlefield, 14LN337
Date: Unknown
This complete ivory or bone comb was recovered from the Mine Creek Civil War Battlefield in Linn County during a 1990 survey by Kansas Historical Society Archeologists. On October 25, 1864 Union and Confederate forces fought one of the largest cavalry battles in the Civil War at this site. The comb, however, was recovered from near the farmstead on the property and may post date the battle.
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Lice Comb from the Hollenberg Pony Express Station, 14WH316
Date: 1857-1941
This lice comb was recovered from the 1991 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school at the Hollenberg Pony Express Station in Washington County. Lice combs have tightly spaced teeth to remove the lice nits from the hair and scalp. A partial manufacturer's name is visible: "U. COMB CO." The site was the location of a pony express station, a stop on the Oregon-California trail, a post office, a blacksmith shop, and a farm with barns and other outbuildings. The site was purchased by the Kansas Legislature in 1941 and is in the National Register of Historic Places.
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