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These buttons were excavated at the Plaster House site in Gray County, possibly a late 19th- or early 20th-century dugout. They include buttons for ladies dresses and shirts. They are made of glass and jet, two have loop attachments, one is a 2-hole sew-through, and the last a 4-hole sew-through. The occupants of the dugout were most likely the family of Oliver and Anna Mitchell; Oliver Mitchell was described in his obituary as a horse rancher. Settlement in this area of Kansas mostly post-dated the construction of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad in 1872 and was at least partially associated experienced a boom during with the construction of the Soule Canal in the mid-1880s.
Date: 1879-1899
Item Number: 510051
Call Number: 14GY307-52-25; 14GY307-66-3; 14GY307-81-17 & -18
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 510051
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Clothing
Home and Family - Residences - Dugouts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Personal Artifacts - Clothing - Clothing, Accessory - Button
People - European Americans
Places - Counties - Gray
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
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