Indigenous beaded branches. Stem with three offshoots each with three green beaded leaves.

Indigenous beaded flowers. Stem with white beaded flower buds and two green beaded leaves.

Small white and orange indigenous beaded flowers.

One iron bear. Marks: A circle with No.5 in center and "[Kenw]ood N.Y." on inside edge of circle; on outside edge of circle: "S NEWHOUSE." First designed and manufactured by Sewell Newhouse (1806-1888). Newhouse became a member of the Oneida Community about 1848 and continued to make animal traps there. It became a profitable industry of the religious sect and continued after Newhouse's death in 1888.

Beater with cast iron gears and four wire, double-looped beaters. Wooden handle.

Youth's bed, painted, with arched headboard and four square posts topped with ball finials.

Four turned maple posts, a shaped headboard and foot board with side rails drilled for ropes.

Red paint on scrolled headboard, turned blanket rail, and cannon ball finials. Rails round, and drilled for rope.

Bed with scrolled pine headboard, turned maple posts with flat round finials. Round, pegged rails.

Roped bed. Grain-painted, black and red. Rectangular head and footboards between turned posts.

Sheraton style painted bed with pine head and footboards, maple posts and square, drilled rope rails.

Bed with pine headboard with maple posts and rails. The square chamfered maple legs taper up and down from the rails.

Rope bed. Cut-cornered pine headboard with red stain. Turned maple posts with mushroom-type finials. Square rails with holes for ropes.

Bed with arched head and foot boards with turned posts with mushroom finials. Square rope rails with chamfered edges and turned peg rope supports. Red stain covered.

Bed with turned maple head posts with pointed urn finials. Foot posts with mushroom finials. Rectangular drilled rails.

A flat top pine head and foot board. Four turned legs with mushroom finials. Square, drilled rope rails. Painted red.

Low post bed in original red paint. Molded edges on headboard and on side and foot rails. Incising on simply turned posts.

Wooden bed key for tightening ropes on a roped bed.

A bed warmer with a sheet iron pan, a brass cover, and a wrought iron handle.

Copper pan with brown painted handle and brass hanging ring. Engraved design on cover includes a long-tailed bird, flowers and leaves.

Rectangular block of gray soapstone. The ends of an iron bail handle are inserted into holes on each side of the stone.

Rectangular block of gray soapstone with shallow holes drilled on each side of the stone that once had a bail handle insert into them.

Bed warmer made of soapstone block with a metal handle.

Two-pronged rope bed tightener with ash handle.

Round, bentwood box with hinged top and a round opening covered with wire screen. It has as a brass hook to secure the lid. This small box might have been to transport a queen, transport part of a colony of bees, or as a small starter hive or "nuc" (short for nucleus colony).

Tin funnel-shaped smoker on leather bellows.

Bee smoker made of tin and leather.

Dome shaped beehive basket with hewn stick or handle and rows of straw that are secured with wire.

Bell with cast steel handle and cast iron clapper, the end of which is cross shaped.

Rolled sheet iron bell with cast knocker and turned wood handle.

Bell with handle. Handle is lathe turned and tapers from a large rounded end to a more narrow form at the connection to metal bell. It also has turned decorative circles around handle and the handle is capped with a small circular bronze piece on the top. Bronze base is cylindrical by the handle and widens. "8" incised in the top of the handle out to a circle with a decorative edge. Base is attached with a piece of bronze encircling the handle. The iron ringer attached to iron hanger.

Turtle-back bellows with brass tip. Back is green with free-hand, black decorations and gold, orange and bronze stenciled fruit and leaves.

Bellows. Smoke-decorated and yellow painted bellows with free-hand leaf and pear decoration in black, red, green and gold.

Painted green bellows with freehand design of a gold, black and red basket of flowers, etc. Brass tip. Sheraton.

Sheraton style bellow with brass tacks and brass tip. Painted green with orange and gold stencil designs and free-hand black decorations.

Simple one-shelf water or bucket bench with scrub top and red stained legs (each formed of one board) and front and back apron.

Shelved bench with overhanging top and cut-out legs. Painted blue-green.

Sheraton fancy style bench/blanket box. Long bench with short turned legs and a seat that lifts in two sections over two blanket boxes. Scrolled arms and a large turned pillow back, all supported by upright spindles, painted black and decorated with polychrome stencils and stripe work. Front panels are grain painted to simulate oak.

Small 24-page Sunday School tract.

Cellarette. Covered box with brass handles. Grained and decorated. Interior divided into 12 sections. 4 wooden casters mounted on 2 wooden strips attached to base. 4 bottles inside. Gilt grape leaf decorations on 2 of the bottles. Bottles are blown with arched shoulders, flaring lips and pontil scars. Name and date painted in interior. "I S Jr" branded on bottom of case. Box fitted for large and small bottles and glasses. Top decorated with smoke work. Sides and front are grain painted red with ochre grained, cut-cornered panels. Interior of cover is putty-painted in green and natural.

Tin bilge pump. Vertical cylinder of lapped tin. Top flares outwards with a wired and rolled lip. Just below top is a cylindrical pipe/spout joined perpendicular to the body of the cylinder. Plunger handle and leather washers are missing.

Bilge pump. Cylindrical vertical tube open at the bottom (1997.10.1a). A second tapered tube is attached to the bottom at a 45 degree angle. A support bar joins the two tubes near the top. A strap handle with wood fill is soldered to the top of the vertical tube. There is a wooden turned plunger with a shaped handle (1991.10.1b). A small tin plate is nailed to the bottom. Lamp wicking nailed around the base of the plunger.

Bill sent to John McKay (MacKay) from the New-York Central Railroad Company for freight charges for corn.

Clear glass, mold-blown, birdcage feeder. Cylindrical shape with ribs extending from center of base to neck. Bulge above cylindrical part includes a large hole for feeding; open neck. Top lip is rough, sanded pontil mark on bottom.

Clear glass, mold-blown birdcage feeder. Cylindrical shape with ribs extending from center of base to neck; bulge above cylindrical part includes a large hole for feeding; open neck. Top lip is rough, sanded pontil mark on bottom.

Birdcage feeder. Clear glass, mold blown. Body is cylindrical and ribbed which widens at center and narrows to applied twisted finial. Fountain has circular hole on side, the bottom lip of the circular opening has been chipped off. Pontil mark broken off.

Birdcage feeder. Clear glass, mold blown. Body is cylindrical and ribbed which widens at center and narrows to applied twisted finial. Fountain has circular hole on side. Hole in the back middle of the feeder. Broken pontil on bottom.

Free-blown glass bird fountain. Body is fluted, around the rim is rigaree topped with a glass bulb. The feeder extends away from the body with a rectangular opening.

Free blown cobalt blue glass birdcage fountain. Clear glass riagree joins the body with a clear glass bulb top. The feeder extends out from the body, its edge is also cobalt with the base of the feeder clear glass.

Free blown glass birdcage fountain. The body has shallow flutes and the top has a twisted glass detail, topped with a cobalt blue bulb. The feeder extends away from the body in a rectangular shape.

Bulbous free blown glass birdcage fountain. The glass is speckled with a decorative knob on its top. There is a spout connected to the body. Pontil mark on the bottom.

Bird-cage fountain. Colorless, blown-molded, with globular body, flattened on one side. Waterer has a projecting rectangular cup, tapering neck with flat button base for chicken finial and rounded sides with alternate fillet-rib and broad plain panel. Plain base with rough pontil mark.

Colorless, blown-molded birdcage fountain with globular body, flattened on one side having a projecting rectangular cup. Tapering neck with flat button base for chicken finial and rounded sides with alternate fillet-rib and broad plain panel. Plain base with rough pontil mark.

One blacksmith's apron once owned by John Thomas "JT" Caley, blacksmith for the town of Brighton, New York. Apron is made of thick black leather and has two gromets at the top and leather loops where ties would have gone. In very good condition for its age. Some cracking along the outer edges and some tears in the front "split" of the apron with one piece having come loose but leather is still malleable and supple.

Blacksmith box owned by John Thomas (JT) Caley. Box is made of wood with a cast iron handle that curves over the box. Cast iron strips are screwed onto the edges for stability. There is a larger compartment at the bottom and a small compartment divided into four areas at the top.

One blacksmith's hammer with wooden handle and cast iron head.

All wool blanket. Hand spun white, and commercial red wool. Bold red and white plaid. Woven into strips. Copied from an 1840 blanket in Nancy Bogdonoff's "Handwoven Textiles of Early New England".

Woven blanket. Red and blue check on natural ground.

Rust and blue check on white. Woven by GCM weavers.

Blanket. Commercial warp, handspun weft, all natural color, all wool.

Blanket. Commercial warp, handspun weft, all natural color, all wool. Woven by GCM weavers.

One reproduction Shaker diamond point wool blanket with a twill pattern in dark blue and white.

Large indigo and white plaid blanket. Modification of early one in the book "Keep Me Warm One Night". Yarn spun by GCM spinners. Blanket woven by GCM weavers.

2 ply handspun and dyed with indigo. The pattern is Goose-eye twill. Was worked on over a period of 2 years by the GCM weavers. "4 days to wind warp. 3 days to dress loom. 17 days to weave." - Louise Richens (GCV&M weaver).

A simple six-board blanket chest or box with remnants of blue paint..

Blanket chest. Painted vermillion with black/gilt striping. Gilt floral stenciling with dome top and lined with wallpaper, on top: stenciled "F.C.G."

Blanket chest with lift top and tapered legs. Brown with an oval pattern in yellow ochre with green plumes. Yellow stenciled, inlay-like border. Hepplewhite.

Six board blanket chest with lift lid and four turned legs with ball feet. Painted red.

Blanket chest grained, painted black and red. Lift top with two drawers. Feet cut out of the solid ends. An old brass bat wing-type escutcheon decorates the top of the front. Drawers have molded edges, oval brasses and bat-wing escutcheons.

Hepplewhite blanket chest painted with a brown-red finish with darker graining. Lift top with two drawers. Feet cut to look like bracket feet. Shaped front and side skirts. Old brass escutcheons and brasses. Molded-edge drawers.

Six board blanket chest with lift top with molded edge. Four of the planks are painted red with free-hand black designs.

Blanket chest with hinged lift top, cut out feet and a base molding.

Painted blanket chest with hinged and molded cover. Small covered till inside and molded base. Blue-gray paint.

Blanket chest with lift-top box on bracket feet with three small molded edge drawers. Painted red.

Hand pieced and hand quilted. "Each full star in this red, green, and yellow quilt is made up of 128 diamond-shaped pieces. Fifteen full stars, 11 half-stars and 2 quarter stars add up to an impressive total of 2,688 diamonds. A close examination reveals faint pencil marks made to guide the stitching, done in a running vine pattern." - Elizabeth Davis, "A Stitch in Time: Quilts from the Genesee Country Village & Museum", 2005.

Sander. Three bands of punched decoration on base and turned shaft. Double edge on rim decorated with tiny scalloping..

A bobbin holder ("lazy kate") consisting of one bobbin rack with three horizontal wrought iron rods, two of which hold the original maple bobbins. The footed frame is secured with wooden pegs.

Shoemaker's boot last. Whittled hickory boot form with movable foot on a pegged joint & handle carved from the "leg".

Boot scraper shaped like two dolphins, nose to nose. Bar between tails forms scraper. Three screw holes in flat base.

Boot jack in the shape of a cricket.

Bootjack. The chamfered frame, screwed to the jack, is movable so as to act as a hand rest for balance. Jack has sole-shaped opening and swings on two pivot points within the frame

Wooden bootjack with a forked shape and a block of wood attached perpendicularly above the divergent part of the fork.

Rectangular bottle with round beaded screw top.

Bottle with green lateral sides and sloping shoulder. Sloping rim with string lip. Dug from the earth along the Barge Canal.

Green glass bottle with narrow neck.

Yellow-green, two-part blown/molded glass bottle with cylindrical body and rounded shoulders. Long neck with wide mouth that is thicker than the neck, polished pontil mark on bottom.

Yellow-green, two-part blown/molded glass bottle with cylindrical body and rounded shoulders. Long neck with wide mouth that is thicker than the neck, polished pontil mark on bottom.

Blue-green, two-part blown/molded glass bottle with polished pontil mark, straight sides and sloped shoulders leading to a short blown neck and double lipped mouth. Narrow sides of body are flat and raised from the surface and run from the base of the bottle along the sides to the neck.

Earthenware bottle with bands of incising under neck.

Clear glass bottle.

Olive-green, amber, gin bottle blown in a square-sided mold. Six-sided star and a circle in each corner of base.

Blown, double flask shaped like a bellows with applied rosettes, probably a glass blowers' "whimsey".

A straight-sided brown bottle made of vitreous stoneware.

A green bottle of bulbous form with a long neck and a flared lip.

Black sherry bottle.

Blown, seamed olive-amber bottle with pontil scar. Embossed on bottom: "Ricketts".

Blown, seamed olive-amber wine bottle with pontil scar.

Pressure-type blown amber-olive wine bottle with pontil scar.

Blown, olive-amber bottle with pontil scar.

Pressure-type blown wine bottle olive amber with pontil scar.