Photos tagged as pioneer

Day 14 - Rugby Museum, Children's Room

• Date: 15 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Minot, USA
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Day 14 - Rugby Museum, Butter Dish

When people churned their own butter, they could use paddles to roll it into balls. So butter dishes were round.

• Date: 15 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Minot, USA
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Day 14 - Rugby Museum, Blacksmith Shop Pulleys

This shop had a single motor, so many pulley's ran from a shaft on the ceiling to power the different tools.

• Date: 15 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Minot, USA
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Day 14 - Rugby Museum, Blacksmith Shop Tools

• Date: 15 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Minot, USA
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Day 14 - Rugby Museum, Blacksmith Shop Wheel

Wheels were essential to pioneer's buggys and wagons, so the local blacksmith was their equivalent of a modern tire store/auto repair shop.

• Date: 15 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Minot, USA
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Day 14 - Rugby Museum, Blacksmith Shop Forge

This would be an early 1900's shop. Notice the electric blower on the Forge.

• Date: 15 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Minot, USA
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Day 14 - Rugby Museum, Blacksmith Shop

• Date: 15 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Minot, USA
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Day 14 - Rugby Museum, 1885 Log Cabin

Lifestyles on the plaines states in the late 1800's were similar to those on the east coast 200 years earlier.

• Date: 15 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Minot, USA
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Day 14 - Rugby Museum, Washing Machine Interior

The paddles were used to beat the cloths

• Date: 15 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Minot, USA
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Day 14 - Rugby Museum, Washing Machine

Mom is explaining to me what this is and how it works. I would have never guessed it was a washing machine.

• Date: 15 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Minot, USA
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Day 14 - Rugby Museum, Kitchen Gadgets

There was a very long room in one of the buildings filled with kitchen and sewing things. Mom actually knew what a lot of them were.

• Date: 15 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Minot, USA
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Day 14 - Rugby Museum

Mom is taking a picture of the post, which was built using rocks from all 50 states.

• Date: 15 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Minot, USA
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Day 14 - Rugby Museum, Stoves

There was a large variety of old wood stoves in the Kitchen & Sewing room.

• Date: 15 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Minot, USA
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Day 14 - Rugby Museum, 1885 Cabin (Interior Left)

• Date: 15 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Minot, USA
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Day 14 - Rugby Museum, 1885 Cabin (Interior Right)

• Date: 15 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Minot, USA
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Day 14 - Ward Cnty Museum, 1886 Sundre Cabin

A local boy scout troop was actually responsible for saving this cabin for the museum and much of it's restoration.

• Date: 15 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Minot, USA
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Day 9 - Upton, Wyoming Old Town Sod House (Interior Right)

This is the other side of the inside of the Sod House. Not much bigger on this side, and no privacy.

• Date: 10 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: USA
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Day 9 - Upton, Wyoming Old Town Sod House (Interior Left)

The Sod House had one room, sometimes a large family would have to share the limited space.

• Date: 10 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: USA
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Day 9 - Upton, WY Old Town Sod House

This was a one room house built out of Prairie Sod. Pioneers would cut a strip in the sod about 3 inches deep and pick up the clay (with the grass roots) to use as bricks. The prairie soil was so compacted that the bricks held together pretty good.

• Date: 10 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: USA
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Day 9 - Upton, WY Old Town School (Interior)

Since the building was locked, I had to take this through the glass, which wasn't very clean. Hope you can get an idea what it was like to study here.

• Date: 10 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: USA
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Day 9 - Upton, WY Old Town School

Notice the board walks also. Most towns or communities had only a one room school, all grades (1 - 8) were in the same classroom.

• Date: 10 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: USA
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Day 9 - Upton, Wyoming Old Town (2)

Another view of this pioneer village. This one is complete with a sod cabin, or 'soddie'

• Date: 10 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: USA
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Day 2 - Cashmere, WA - Pioneer Village

I have a lot more pictures of this, but will have to upload them elsewhere due to capacity limitations. All bldgs are real, mostly moved here from around WA.

• Date: 3 September 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: USA
• Tags: village cashmere pioneer
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