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This liquor bottle was found at the Shawnee Indian Mission in Johnson County. The bottle has remnants of a Federal Tax Strip down one side of the finish and bottle, a cork cap and the wording "FULL 1/4 PINT." The bottle presents a bit of a conundrum as the bottle style and cork cap argue for a time period between the 1860s to the 1920s, but the style of Federal Tax Strip dates from 1934 to 1973. The Mission was built in 1839 for the Shawnee Tribe and closed in 1862. The life of the building did not end there as during the Civil War troops were quartered there and later it saw use as a dance hall, dairy bottling plant, apartments and a boarding house until becoming property of the state in 1927.
Date: 1860-1973
Item Number: 443209
Call Number: 14JO362-5
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 443209
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Leisure - Alcohol consumption
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Places - Counties - Johnson
Places - Historic sites - Shawnee Indian Mission
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917
Thematic Time Period - Civil War, 1861 - 1865
Thematic Time Period - Eisenhower Years, 1946 - 1961
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Thematic Time Period - The Sixties and Vietnam, 1961 - 1975
Thematic Time Period - The Twenties, 1920 - 1929
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