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The dinner plate fragment was recovered during a survey of the Murray Trash #3 site, near the Minersville coal mining operation in Cloud County. The porcelain dish is decorated with gold and black bands interspaced with a multi-colored floral motif.
Date: 1880-1945
Item Number: 510147
Call Number: 14CD453-0-14 7.5" x 5.25"
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 510147
Business and Industry - Mining and quarrying - Coal
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Objects and Artifacts - Furnishings - Household Accessory - Plate
Places - Counties - Cloud
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
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