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This Diatonic harmonica with silver cover-plates, brass reed-plates, and a black and orange wood comb belonged to Dean Thomas of Dighton, Kansas. Dean came down with appendicitis on the first day of a major two-day blizzard and was unable to reach a hospital until after his appendix had ruptured. Dean Thomas died at age 10 on March 31, 1931. After his death, his mother kept many of Dean's belongings, including this harmonica, in a trunk.
Creator: Beaver
Date: between 1920 and 1931
Item Number: 223498
KSHS Identifier: 2010.1.18
Collections - Museum
Community Life - Disasters and accidents - Snow and blizzards
Date - 1920s
Date - 1930s
Environment - Weather - Storms - Snow and blizzards
Home and Family - Children - Boys
Objects and Artifacts - Tools & Equipment for Communication - Musical - Musical, Unclassified - Harmonica
Places - Cities and towns - Dighton
Places - Counties - Lane
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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