Wooden Fencepost, 1888

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Wooden Fencepost
Artifact/Collection Number: 
AC 00244
Location: 
Shelf 8

Single wooden picket with spade-shaped top.  The whitewash paint is weathered and slightly pealing.  The fencepost was supposedly used in the 1888 Halloween riot. 

Decade: 
1880-1889
Origin: 
Gift of Elizabeth Anna Low, Class of 1891
Subject: 
Riot
Format: 
Building Materials
Exhibits: 
2019 - Invisible Labor