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Iron and oak felling ax marked along one side: "This axe used by Blanche Boise in smashing the glass cover to picture of Custer's Last Fight." Topeka resident Blanch Boise was a follower of the nationally recognized temperance advocate Carry Nation. Boise was known for violent acts directed at entities associated with the illegal consumption of alcohol. On January 9, 1904, Boise entered the Kansas State Historical Society rooms in the Kansas Statehouse and attacked a framed Anheuser-Busch advertisement depicting a print of Cassilly Adam's famous painting, "Custer's Last Fight," found on Kansas Memory with the Item Number of 305138. Boise was arrested and incarcerated that night. Working in conjunction with Carry Nation, Boise later continued her temperance work by smashing the glass fronts of four Topeka saloons and two drugstores.
Date: between 1900 and 1904
Item Number: 224719
Call Number: 1921.24.0
KSHS Identifier: 1921.24.0
Collections - Museum
Date - 1900s
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Prohibition and temperance
Objects and Artifacts - Tools & Equipment for Materials - Woodworking - Ax
People - Notable Kansans - Nation, Carry Amelia,1846-1911
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/224719