Luncheon Plate
One Chinese export porcelain plate with a blue and white hand painted pattern. The very outer edge of the rim is pale orange from the natural color of the clay. The blue border has butterflies and floral motifs. The center pattern is a landscape with an evergreen tree, and a Chinese man with his arms crossed.
Luncheon Plate
One Chinese export porcelain plate with a blue and white hand painted pattern. The very outer edge of the rim is pale orange from the natural color of the clay. The blue border has butterflies and floral motifs. The center pattern is a landscape with an evergreen tree, and a Chinese man with his arms crossed.
Luncheon Plate
One Chinese export porcelain plate with a blue and white hand painted pattern. The very outer edge of the rim is pale orange from the natural color of the clay. The blue border has butterflies and floral motifs. The center pattern is a landscape with an evergreen tree, and a Chinese man with his arms crossed.
Luncheon Plate
One Chinese export porcelain plate with a blue and white hand painted pattern. The very outer edge of the rim is pale orange from the natural color of the clay. The blue border has butterflies and floral motifs. The center pattern is a landscape with an evergreen tree, and a Chinese man with his arms crossed.
Luncheon Plate
Luncheon plate with a transfer of flowers and leaves with over-glaze colorings. Molded, embossed rim outlined in orange enamel.
Luncheon Plate
Luncheon plate with a transfer of flowers and leaves with over-glaze colorings. Molded, embossed rim outlined in orange enamel.
Luncheon Plate
Luncheon plate with a transfer of flowers and leaves with over-glaze colorings. Molded, embossed rim outlined in orange enamel.
Luncheon Plate
Luncheon plate with a transfer of flowers and leaves with over-glaze colorings. Molded, embossed rim outlined in orange enamel.
Luncheon Plate
Luncheon plate with a transfer of flowers and leaves with over-glaze colorings. Molded, embossed rim outlined in orange enamel.
Luncheon Plate
Luncheon plate with a transfer of flowers and leaves with over-glaze colorings. Molded, embossed rim outlined in orange enamel.
Luncheon Plate
Luncheon plate with a transfer of flowers and leaves with over-glaze colorings. Molded, embossed rim outlined in orange enamel.
Luncheon Plate
Luncheon plate with a transfer of flowers and leaves with over-glaze colorings. Molded, embossed rim outlined in orange enamel.
Luncheon Plate
Luncheon plate with a transfer of flowers and leaves with over-glaze colorings. Molded, embossed rim outlined in orange enamel.
Luncheon Plate
Luncheon plate with a transfer of flowers and leaves with over-glaze colorings. Molded, embossed rim outlined in orange enamel.
Luncheon Plate
Luncheon plate. Mulberry ware. Ironstone with a transfer printed pattern called "CYPRUS" in a reddish brown.
Luncheon Plate
Luncheon plate. Mulberry ware. Ironstone with a transfer printed pattern called "CYPRUS" in a reddish brown.
Luncheon Plate
Luncheon plate. Mulberry ware. Ironstone with a transfer printed pattern called "CYPRUS" in a reddish brown.
Luncheon Plate
Luncheon plate. Mulberry ware. Ironstone with a transfer printed pattern called "CYPRUS" in a reddish brown.
Luncheon Plate
Luncheon plate. Mulberry ware. Ironstone with a transfer printed pattern called "CYPRUS" in a reddish brown.
Luncheon Plate
Luncheon plate. Mulberry ware. Ironstone with a transfer printed pattern called "CYPRUS" in a reddish brown.
Luncheon Plate
Blue transfer luncheon plate. On top medallion: "America / Independent / July 4 / 1776". On bottom medallion: "Washington / Born 1732 / Died 1799. On plate: Carter Bradford / Winslow Brewster / & Standish.
Luncheon Plate
Ironstone china plate with brown leaf decorative pattern covering the plate.
Luncheon Plate
Luncheon plate with a transfer of flowers and leaves with over-glaze colorings. Molded, embossed rim outlined in orange enamel.
Luncheon Plate
Shaped-edge, greenish glaze with a free-hand painted blue Chinese landscape.
Luncheon Plate
White plate with a dark blue transfer of a landscape with field scene in the foreground, and a manor house and church behind. Floral accents around the rim.
Luncheon Plate
Ironstone china plate with brown leaf decorative pattern covering the plate.
Luncheon Plate
Lavender transfer plate with image of two people in the foreground, temples, a boat on lake, and an elephant in the back ground. Scalloped and beaded rim with flowers, scenes and a decorative border.
Luncheon Plate
Soft paste porcelain luncheon plate with a sprig pattern in green and purple.
MacKay Family Bible
Brown leather family Bible belonging to the MacKay family. Printed in 1816. Mementos such as flowers and leaves pressed between the pages. Family register lists the deaths of siblings Catherine, Daniel, Margaret, Hector, Mordecai, and John MacKay. John was the owner of MacKay House which sits on the Village Green at the GCV&M.
Mandeville & King Seed Box
Mandeville & King seedbox. Label on interior, "Mandeville & King Co. / Superior Flowers Seeds / Rochester, N.Y."
Map
Map of "The Cottringer Tract - 1807". Red and black ink. Shows division of the 50,000 acre tract in Livingston County into lots and names of settlers. Surveyed by Elijah Johnson 1807. On upper right hand corner of back: "B16984672". Map was originally contained in tin map tube #76.81.1.
Map
Reproduction map of the finger lake area of the Genesee country and Lake Ontario in the 19th century. Two sheets joined. On the upper margin: "Engrav'd by W. Harrison".
Map
Reproduction. Hand drawn and hand colored map of the Holland Land Company acreage, the south and east boundaries of the Massachusetts Preemption, the Genesee River, part of Lake Erie, part of Lake Ontario, etc. c1792-1793.
Map Case
Cylindrical map case with removeable cap. Small wire hook on side. Found inside the case was a map of the "Cottringer Tract". Object #: 76.81.2
Map of Erie Railway, 1871
Map showing Erie Railway routes from New York to Cincinnati and connecting lines.
Map of Monroe County
Map Hand drawn and colored map of Monroe County, 1848 in browns and greens with green foliate border. Signed at lower right "Mary E. Mook 1848".
Map of New York State
Map. Hand drawn and colored map, in green, yellow and brown, of the counties of New York state, Lake Ontario and Long Island Sound. Bound in pink silk 3/8" ribbon. On lower left and hand printed in ink , "New York". On lower center is signed "Mary E. Mook.". On reverse: "Henrietta Monroe Co 1848"
Map of Wayne County, 1858
Printed on the map: "Gillette's Map of Wayne Co New York" and "From actual surveys by J.G. French, John E. Gillette 1858".
Marks Bros. Trade Card
Trade card in the shape of an artist's palette. Around the edge are circles of "paint", flowers and berries. In the center is a young woman with a straw bonnet. Palette reads: Marks Bros. Millinery & White Goods 108 to 114 N. 8th St. Philadelphia
Masher
One wooden masher with a slightly flared head. The handle has a collar at the head end and a mushroom shaped finial at the other end. Three parallel etched lines encircle the handle.
Masher
One masher made of bass wood. Working head is decorated with two sets of parallel lines. Handle has decorative line detail and a finial carved with three parallel lines.
Matchbox
Matchbox. Round covered box on arched backplate, painted green with gilt leaves on backplate.
Measuring Compass
Measuring Pitcher
A copper measuring pitcher with a wide neck and strap handle on one side.
Meat Hook
A meat hook made of four hooks formed from one wrought iron rod and riveted to a thin circular support at the base.
Medical Bag
An alligator skin doctor’s bag. The bag has latches made of brass and a carry handle also in alligator. There is a brass plate on the front that is inscribed “Dr. J. Perry Horle.” The inside of the case has several compartments. One side has a removeable insert that holds eleven glass vials with corks and identified by paper labels. The back of the insert is covered in brown leather and has a pocket for papers and such. Behind this insert is space for an additional eight vials. On the other side of the case is space for eleven more vials. Underneath the vials is a compartment with a door made of brown leather and lined with purple velvet. Inside is a brass syringe and parts of a syringe. This bag was owned by Dr. John Perry Horle (1868-1927) of Fly Creek, NY.
Medicine Bottle
Small bottle. Original cork intact though broken off. Has original material inside.
Melodeon
Rectangular reed melodeon with pierced music rack. Wavy molding around case. Cabriole legs with cast iron grape design. Marked "Austin C. Chase / Syracuse".
Memoir of Jude Cain
Small 16-page Sunday School tract. Inside the pages was a small green ticket with a Bible verse on it.
Merrill Carbine Rifle
.54 caliber, single-shot, percussion, breechloader used mainly by Union cavalry units. It used the .54 caliber Minie balls with paper cartridges which were loaded by lifting the top of the breech lever.
Metal Box
Flat toped box with a wire bail handle and a lock and key. Painted black with red and gold striping. Key included. Printed on a piece of paper glued to the top of the box: "J. George Kaelber". Stenciled on bottom: "02".
Michigan State Agricultural Society Medal
Michigan State Agricultural Society Medal. (Front) Features a woman dressed in a toga sitting among agricultural devices and sheaves of wheat with a harbor view in the background. Top of coin reads "Michigan State Agricultural Society". (Back) Inscribed: "To J. F. Gordon Co. For self raking binding harvester At The 20th Meeting 1868". Top of coin reads "Michigan State Agricultural Society" and bottom reads "Organized March 24th 1849." Made of silver.
Military Register, Company C, NY 151st
Military register for Company C of the New York Volunteers 151st Regiment. Organized at Lockport, Niagara Co., New York, 1862. Mustered into service October 22, 1862.