Barbed Wire Collection
On display at the Western Illinois Museum as the January Artifact of the Month is a collection of barbed wire donated in 1980 by Dr.… Read More »Barbed Wire Collection
Artifact of the Month
Apple Butter
Apple Butter Making: A Tradition Preserved For November the Western Illinois Museum’s “Artifact of the Month” is an apple butter kettle and wooden stirring paddle,… Read More »Apple Butter
Pappy’s Pure Pop
By Heather Munro The featured artifact from the Western Illinois Museum’s collections is a group of antique pop bottles bottled at Macomb Bottle Works and… Read More »Pappy’s Pure Pop
Stromberg-Carlson Telephone
Wooden wall telephone made by the Stromberg-Carlson Company, 1910 This wooden wall telephone was manufactured in 1910 by Stromberg-Carlson Company of Chicago, Illinois. Alfred Stromberg… Read More »Stromberg-Carlson Telephone
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