To order images and/or obtain permission to use them commercially, please contact the KSHS Reference Desk at KSHS.reference@ks.gov or 785-272-8681, ext. 117.
For more information see the Copyright and Permission FAQ.
These candy dish fragments were excavated at the Plaster House site in Gray County, possibly a late 19th- or early 20th-century dugout. The fragments were reconstructed in the archeology lab. The dish is decorated in etched floral and cut linear patterns. 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 experienced a boom during with the construction of the Soule Canal in the mid-1880s.
Date: 1879-1899
Item Number: 510103
Call Number: 14GY307
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 510103
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking
Home and Family - Residences - Dugouts
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Furnishings - Household Accessory - Dish
Places - Counties - Gray
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/510103