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    • Blacksmithing Tools: Anvil

    • Blacksmithing Tools: Anvil

    • Unknown

    • Metalworking Tools and Equipment

    • 27"x11"x10" iron anvil of unknown date or origin, passed down to George Q. Matkin in 1896 by his uncle Charles Drury. George Q. learned the trade of blacksmithing from his Uncle Charles Drury
    • Mountain Lion Hide with Spear that Killed It

    • Mountain Lion Hide with Spear that Killed It

    • Lewis, Eb (Spear maker)

    • Natural History: Biology: Lion; T&E for Science and Technology: Armament - Edged: Spear

    • 7 1/2 ft. long golden-brown mountain lion skin from the White Mountains of Arizona and 8 ft. long metal spear handmade by Eb Lewis, circa 1960. Trophy mountain lion skin that Eb Lewis killed with his handmade spear somewhere in the White...
    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 7-5-2002 Fundraiser Tee Shirt

    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 7-5-2002 Fundraiser Tee Shirt

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifact: Clothing -- Outerwear: T-Shirt

    • Grey cotton silkscreened tee shirt manufactured to sell as souvenirs for fundraising. The Tee Shirt was produced by an unknown source for the purpose of raising funds to reforest burned acreage during the worst fire in White Mountain history. The...
    • Framed Photograph of Eb Lewis holding Burden Basket

    • Framed Photograph of Eb Lewis holding Burden Basket

    • Lewis, Lucinda

    • Personal Artifacts: Gear: Basket, Burden

    • Color photograph of Eb Lewis holding one of the many American Native artifacts he collected throughout his career, a large White Mountain Apache burden basket, circa 1960s. Native American women used burden baskets to carry grasses, nuts, pine...
    • Photograph of the Stratton Trading Post

    • Photograph of the Stratton Trading Post

    • Unknown

    • Structures: Building: Store

    • B&W Photograph of Stratton Trading Post. James A. Stratton opened the Trading Post in about 1942 on what was (and still is) the main street in Show Low, just down from Bill's Bar. Service was mainly a restaurant and gas station, but for a while...
    • Telephone Switchboard

    • Telephone Switchboard

    • Western States Telephone Company

    • T&E for Communication: Telecommunications T & E: Switchboard

    • Switchboard is 56"h x 23 1/2"W with a 37 1/2" deep table. The switchboard operator and-connected incoming calls to switchboard recepticles using corded plugs. Calls could be made to Holbrook, Albuquerque, Greer, Show Low, Whiteriver, Pinetop,...
    • Post Office

    • Post Office

    • Unknown

    • T&E for Communication: Written Communication T&E: Mailboxes

    • Two adjoining walls of bronze mailboxes with an ornate bonze barred clerk's window and a glass-topped wooden counter. The mail boxes are from the time when Don Tanner was Postmaster, 1930-1956. When Corydon Cooley was appointed Show Low's first...
    • Wood Stove

    • Wood Stove

    • Guaranteed Ranges

    • T&E for Materials: Food Processing T&E: Stove, Wood

    • Black cast iron kitchen wood-burning cook stove with stovepipe, date of manufacture unknown. Don and Angela Borrego came from Colorado to the White Mountains during the 1950's. She wanted a wood stove for their summer kitchen outside of their...
    • Cannon

    • Cannon

    • Eb Lewis

    • T&E for Science and Technology: Armament Technology: Cannon

    • Eb Lewis was reading about Napoleon and in the book there were the specifications on how to make a cannon. He said, "I can do that!" He cast his cannon out of bronze, putting his name and Show Low's in the mold. Then he wondered if it would shoot....
    • Dentist Tools of Dr. Joseph Sydney Woolford

    • Dentist Tools of Dr. Joseph Sydney Woolford

    • Unknown

    • T&E for Science and Technology: Medical T&E: Pliers

    • Three steel pliers, the dental tools of Dr. Joseph Sydney Woolford, the first Apache County Physician, before Apache and Navajo Counties were divided. Joseph graduated from a Pennsylvania medical school in 1873. He first moved to Northern...

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