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History of the Catalog

In 1992, the varied holdings from the Museum were assembled in index cards and odd peices of notebook paper. As early as 1994 a word-processing file was assembled for the description and organization of both loaned and permanent collection items. This file was transferred to a data-base file. Yet, both of these were forays into digital collections management were utilized proprietary software. Open-source code was utilized as soon as practicable and was found to be an ideal solution for a small, alternative, "close to the ground" repository. learn less

Categories including Series and Subseries and Vinculum Categories

Categories are often both overlapping (vinculum) and mutable. At the Main Street Museum they include, but are not limited to: Flora; Fauna; Exotica (geographically diverse objects); Shoes (and Tiny Shoes); Fiber, Textiles and Costumes; Tangled Things; Objects Associated with Famous People; Round Things; Objects with Orifices; Bad Art; Bad Craft; Recreated Artifacts Refused by Dartmouth Realia; Amulets and Sacred Objects; Judæica; Vermontiana; Relics from the Civil War/War Between the States; and Unidentified Mammals or “Flocked Pets.”

Objects as Evidence of Human Culture

Artifacts as Evidence of Religion; Comparitive Religious Studies

• Judaica
• Relics
  • Secular Relics
    • Pieces of Wood
  • Religious Relics
    • Associated Relics
    • Sacred Utensils; Consecrated Objects designed for ceremonial Use

Geographically Significant Artifacts

• The Americas
• Asia
• Europe
• Oceana

Tumbler which may—or may not—have come to America on the Mayflower.

Historically Significant Artifacts

• Household Items
  • Food for the Apocalyspe
  • Historic Glassware and "Stand-ins" for Historic Glassware
• Objects Associated with Vermont or New Hampshire Artists
• Objets d'Art
• Pictures
• Recreated Artifacts Denied by Dartmouth Realia
• Silt from the 1927 Flood
• Things, or Fragments of Things Once Owned by, or Associated with, Notable People—Particularly Notable Vermonters
  • Things Left Behind by Musicians

Manuscripts and Journals

• The Heather Collection

The Work-day World of White River Junction

• Drugs
• Food
• Relics of the Architecture of White River Junction, Vermont
• The George Williston Smith Memorial
• Tools

Vinyl pet toy in the shape of a Frisbie pie tin.

Pet Toys

• Cat Toys
• Dog Toys
• Things that were simply chewed on by a pet (see: Categories)

Two Dimensional Evidence Paper; Archive Collections

Manuscripts and Letters

A tin-type in the Museum collection. 20th century. Probably created at a county fair.

Postcards

• The Harvey/Muhly Comparitive Postcard Studies and Taxonomy
• Dellinger Postcard Album
• Dan Edgar Gillingham Postcards
• Novelty Postcards
• Postcards with American Views
• Postcards with Views of Asia
• Postcards with Views of Europe

Military History Collection

The War of the Rebellion/War Between the States

• Botanical Specimens
• Bullets
• Eating Utensils
• Marbles
• Soil Specimens from Civil War Sites

The Renssalaer William Foote Memorial

• Uniforms and Journals

Armaments and Military Technology

• Actual Miltary Technology
• Substitutes or Stand-ins for Weaponry and Munitions

  (For World War II items see The Leroy Short Sporting and Wild Game Memorial)

Sound (Audible) Artifacts

• 78-80 rpm Recordings
• Digital Files

Art

Two Dimensional Pieces

• Paintings
• Drawings
• Prints
• Textiles
  • Fabric and Tapestry

Elvis Aaron Presley Visual Art Amalgam

• Relics of Elvis Aaron Presley
• Souvenirs of Elvis

Dogs and cats made of wax.

Bad Craft

Cat, or Unidentified Mammal? You decide.

Fauna; Living, or Apparently Once Living, Objects

The Ossuary; Bones

The Hall of North American Mammals

• Other Mammalia
• Flocked Pets
  • Unidentified Mammals

Heads (Capitis; Verticis)

This will eventually become the label, and attendant subsidiary labels, delineating the marvels of the Main Street Museum's famed collection of HEADS (We use the Latin terms to distinguish between CAPITIS, the plural of Caput, or head, and VERTICIS, the plural of Vertex, or top, crown, peak, high point).

Research on this point of terminology was generously provided by Daniel Baker.

Specimens of (or Objects relating to) Birds of the Americas

• Eggs

• Nests

• Ornithology, Bird Specimens, all types
• The Humingbird Collection
• Pigeons and Doves

Reptiles Amphibians and Serpents

• Snakes
• Toads
• The Sea-Monster

El Tiburón.

Flora; Living, or Apparently Once Living, Objects

Trees; The Animistic Perspective

• The Hall of Fame of Trees
• Pieces of Wood
  • Wood Shavings

Exotic, Tropic and Sub-tropic Vegetable Samples

• The Flora of South Florida and Lousiana
• Theodore Roosevelt in Puerto-Rico
• Other Exotic Botanical Specimens

Corn; Taxanomic Theories relevant to Zea mays

Small flowers that are, probably, some type of violet. 19th century, c.e.

Mosses and Lichens

Poison Ivy. Banks of the Potomac River.

Native and Non-Native Botany of Windsor County; Native and Non-native Species; “Invasives” in an Ecosystem in Flux

Minerals; Inanimate, or Apparently Inanimate Objects

• Geological Specimens; Rocks
• Soils (Loam), Silt Sand and Dirt

Other

• Corals
• Aquatic Mammalia
• Barnacle Geese
• Borametz (Lamb Tree)

Vinculum Categories

Tangled Things

• Categories Teeth and More Teeth and especially Color as a Hysterical Reaction, Round Things and Tangled Things created by curation teams of the Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont.)