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These plate and platter fragments were recovered during the Kansas Archeology Training Program field school in 2022 at Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park in Topeka. All have maker's marks on their back. Top row: manufactured by Maddock & Co. of Burslem, England (between 1876-1903). Bottom row, left to right: Mortiz Zdekauer of Austria (1884-1909), Ridgways of Shelton, England (1920-1952), and Clementonson Bros of Shelton, England (1891-1916). An earlier school, Monroe School, was on the property from 1874 to 1927. The current Monroe Elementary School (built in 1926 and closed in 1975) serves as the interpretive center for the park. Both were segregated African American schools until 1954 when the Supreme Court ended legal segregation in the United States.
Date: 1876-1952
Item Number: 512124
Call Number: 14SH113-21.001-1; -100.003-1; -1052.003-1; 1157.003-1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 512124
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Education - Segregation and desegregation - Brown v. Board
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Furnishings - Household Accessory - Dish - Plate
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Thematic Time Period - The Twenties, 1920 - 1929
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