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This milk glass jar was recovered during the 2007 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school excavations at 14GH102, the Thomas Johnson/Henry Williams dugout in Graham County. The embossing on the base of the jar declares it to be Mentholatum, an ointment "which had the properties of relieving pain, easing itch, curing cold and soothing insect bites." Mentholatum was developed in Wichita, Kansas, in 1889 and is still manufactured today. The dugout was a domestic site related to the settlement of Nicodemus, an all black community in western Kansas.
Date: 1889-2007
Item Number: 446939
Call Number: 14GH102-366-1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 446939
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Business and Industry - Health care
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Health and Hygiene
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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