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This canning jar was recovered during the 2007 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school excavations at 14GH102, the Thomas Johnson/Henry Williams dugout site, in Graham County. The jar's front is embossed with the advertisement: "Kerr Self Sealing Wide Mouth Mason." Additionally, the bottom of the jar is embossed with "Sand Springs Okla Aug 31, 1915." Sand Springs, Oklahoma, manufactured jars for Kerr from 1912 to 1946. The dugout site is a domestic site related to the settlement of Nicodemus, an all black community in western Kansas.
Date: 1915
Item Number: 446937
Call Number: 14GH102-568-1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 446937
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Date - 1910s - 1915
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking - Canning and preserving
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Thomas Johnson/Henry Williams dugout
Objects and Artifacts - Tools & Equipment for Materials - Food Processing - Jar, Preserving
Places - Cities and towns - Nicodemus
Places - Counties - Graham
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
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