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This bottle was recovered during excavations at the 2018 Kansas Archeology Training Program field school at the Kaw Mission in Council Grove. The two clear glass fragments were refit in the Archeology Lab at the Kansas Historical Society. The bottle has an English finish and on the bottom a "N" within a square. This is the bottle maker's mark for the O'bear-Nestor Glass Company of East St. Louis, Illinois. The bottle would have been closed with a cork. The Mission was built over the winter of 1850 - 1851 by the Methodist Episcopal Church South as a school for boys in the Kaw (or Kansa) tribe. The site was acquired by the state of Kansas in 1951 and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
Date: 1915-1930
Item Number: 451099
Call Number: 14MO368-875.001-1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 451099
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Business and Industry - Manufacturing
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Health and Hygiene
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Places - Cities and towns - Council Grove
Places - Counties - Morris
Places - Historic sites - Kaw Mission
Places - Other States - Illinois
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Thematic Time Period - The Twenties, 1920 - 1929
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