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  • Collection: Dawes County Historical Society Museum

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Electric Slide projector, uses light bulbs and glass slides. Instructions for use are in German and English.

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World War II French and German dictionary and translator. This dictionary would have been used by a French speaking person to translate into German or vise versa. A dictionary like this would have been vital for communication between people in Europe…

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Old medicine kit with 24 different medicines. Medicine Kit created by The Red Star Medicine Company in Greely, Colorado. Medicine kit includes cures everything from snake bits to hysteria.

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A machine that allowed you to record your voice onto a wax cylinder. The machine could also be hooked up to a typewriter.

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A Adressograph instruction manual, a blank metal index card, and then a printed card with an address from Omaha, Ne. An Adressograph machine was used to mass send mail, the index card allowed the machine to use it for the number of mail items a…
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