| ceramics |
Visit our ceramics page to learn
about our collection of earthenware, porcelain, pottery and stoneware.
We have dishes that came with our settlers from Scotland.
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| clothing |
Visit our clothing page to learn about
our collection for children, gentlemen, and ladies.
We even have a uniform for an old Millburn baseball team.
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| domestics |
We have a number of items that we refer to as
domestics. These are "those
things around the house" that made life easier. Some of them
were still quite a lot of work.
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| farm implements |
Millburn was a farming community. We have a collection of
farm implements that would
have been used in agriculture. We have an oxen yoke that was found
under a porch in the village.
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| fine arts |
Many of the homes would have been decorated using some
of the items that we have in our
fine arts collection.
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| glassware |
Many things around the home were made of glass. We have a couple of the
electric insulators that you find many places. We have quite
a lot of glassware which is more
useful around the house. Many different sizes, shapes, and colors.
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| photos |
We love to look at old photos. We
have collected quite a few. The ones of people that we have been
able to identify are linked off of the appropriate family
biographical sketch page. Everything else
you will find in these photo exhibits.
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| silver |
Our collection includes a number of items of
silver. You can see teaspoons,
pitchers, and other items of coin silver, silver plate, and sterling.
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| store records |
We consider ourselves fortunate to have a number of
the old store ledgers. Other store records
include receipts and catalogs. We even have some examples of
Millburn's post mark, used before 1905.
One shelf is heavy with the old policy registers for the
Millburn Mutual Insurance Company.
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| tools |
Our early settlers had to build or make many of their possessions.
Often, something around the house or farm would require repair.
We have been able to collect a number of old
tools that would have been used.
Our prize is a beam boring machine for post and peg construction.
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| toys |
It was not always "all work and no play". We have a number
of old toys on display. They were
not all used by children. Millburn had the county checker champion
among their number. Often a game of checkers was played over the
telephone.
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| wood stove |
Insurance regulations don't permit us to light a fire in the
old wood stove today. We have
a number of light bulbs inside to simulate a fire. We can
imagine the number of our citizens who pulled themselves up
by the fire to get warm. The checkerboard is waiting.
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