
Duffy’s Malt Whiskey Bottle
Q: What kind of liquor was taken in the cell by said prisoner? A: Duffy’s Malt Whiskey In November 1888, Private Frank Darlington, company K, 23rd infantry, was court martialed
Q: What kind of liquor was taken in the cell by said prisoner? A: Duffy’s Malt Whiskey In November 1888, Private Frank Darlington, company K, 23rd infantry, was court martialed
This plain white plate is mainly of interest due to the initials stamped on the back. U.S.Q.M.D. stands for United States Quartermaster Department. The Trenton China Company, of Trenton, New
These Quartermaster Department tumblers were excavated from the same dump as the plate. They were originally clear. Manganese was added to glass as a de-coloring agent from the mid-1880s until
This bone brush handle, found outside the fort, may have belonged to a soldier. It is engraved with the name or initials “ED.”
On September 16, 1895 the U.S. army marched out of Fort Mackinac for the last time. The fort, military reservation and Mackinac Island National Park were turned over to the
This pharmaceutical bottle was manufactured for the NATIONAL PARK DRUG STORE, DR J R BAILEY & SON, MACKINAC ISLAND MICH. The Bailey family ran a pharmacy and general store for
This is the lower half of a plate that would have gone on the front of an American infantryman’s hat from 1814 to 1821. The design, though difficult to make
Following the War of 1812, the rooms of the provision storehouse building were used for a variety of other purposes. In 1816 one of these was housing tailors and shoemakers
This piece of bone is scrap from the making of bone button backs. A circular drill was used to cut bone discs from flat pieces of animal bone. These bone