 Good morning. You are at the Chabotin County Historic Museum for our third Saturday in October. It is October 19, 2013. And you are going to see more of Collectors and Collections. We have a really kind of neat lineup this year. We have an author, Dr. James Carey, who has written Echoes of the Home, which is a Civil War story. And he also has a Mediorama of the Civil War, so that should be very, very interesting. Then we have John Swart from Usberg, who has researched the B-47 cannon that shot off some bullets in the area. And we had three different families that were connected with that, the Chuni family, the Novotny family, and also another family, too, the Dealy family. And so we have some representatives of some of those families here today. And we have a replica of the B-47 that was given to them, one of the families by the Air Force. And we also have some blank bullet that was given to them. So that is very, very interesting to hear that history. Then we have a number of people that represent some memorabilia from Chaboygan area. We have John Matteran, who has come all the way from New Mexico, but was a Chaboygan native and grew up in Chaboygan. And he has lots of different artifacts of the Chaboygan area, which is very, very interesting. Then we also have Bill Wongman, who has very many pictures of the early Chaboygan, all different topics. So that will be very interesting also. And then we have Scott Lewandowski, who has some postcards of the Chaboygan area. Then we have Bill Sharp, who has collected arrowheads from his grandfather's farm along the Chaboygan river. So that also will be interesting to see those collections. Then we also have Teddy Bears that Pat Mollendorf has shown us. And she has lots of different advertising bears and bears from many, many different decades. So that also is very interesting. And then we have Mary Turk, who is showing us some of her polygraphy. And that is very, very interesting. It's things that are made with wood and then different shapes are built into them. And she has a number of women's pictures, and then she has some beautiful floral pieces, too, with the polygraphy. So that also will be interesting. So sit back and enjoy, and I hope you enjoy the day. Thank you. Hello. My name is Jim Carey, and I'm a longtime Chaboygan resident. And I'm here today at the Chaboygan County Historical Society as part of their third Saturdays, showing my collections that I've accumulated over my lifetime. My Civil War stuff and my World War II stuff. Sadly, according to my wife, this is just a small percentage of what I do have in my basement, but that will remain my secret. I'm also here promoting my Civil War novel, Echoes from Home. It's been out for over a year and has been very well received. And I would encourage anybody who would like one to stop by, and I'll be glad to sign it for them. What we're looking here is one of my Civil War collections. This diorama depicts General George Custer's cavalry skirmishing with General Jeb Stewart's cavalry on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg. It was a very small skirmish. The cavalry's job was to go out and be the eyes and ears of the army. And sometimes they just happened to meet at the same place and would fight a very brief, small, and often very bloody battle. And in this case, that's exactly what happened here. I've been collecting toy soldiers since I'm about six or seven years old. I guess we can blame my mom for that. She's the one who got me interested in history and started giving me toy soldiers for Christmas and birthday. And I just have never been able to let go of the passion. Now we're looking at a model kit I built about 20 years ago made by the Lindberg model company. And it shows a Confederate artillery unit, the four horse team, the case on with the two attendants on it, and then the cannon carriage itself. What we're looking at now is a portion of my World War II collection. This depicts an armor battle between American forces and German forces. And I tried to bring a variety of different vehicles. We have some American tanks and some half tracks. And on the German side, we have their half tracks, a mobile anti-aircraft platform, and two Tiger tanks, and the infamous 88-millimeter artillery gun that was probably the best piece of artillery in the entire war. Behind that are some composition figures from the 1950s made by a company called Miller. They're very unique and I'm not sure if you can see it from here, but the figure in the tan uniform is actually supposed to be General Douglas MacArthur. And some of the other figures were designed or sculpted to resemble some of the movie stars of the action films of that era. There's a pose of a man in a foxhole where you only see his head and that is supposed to look like for Robert Mitchum, the actor. Behind that we have two of the American fighter planes of the era, a P-51 Mustang and a P-38 Lightning. Good morning. My name is John Swart. I've been working on a little research project during the last couple of months on the strafing of Sheboygan Falls in Usberg that occurred back in March of 1958. The story was pretty much lost and forgotten, but early this spring one of my cousins came to me with a spent 20 millimeter casing and said, I'd like to donate this casing to the museum in Sheboygan. I said, well, you really can't donate an empty shell casing without a story. So for the next couple of months I attempted to put together what has transpired and what the story was all about and create a 55 year later status report. Back in March of 1958, three homes in the area, two in Sheboygan Falls and one in Usberg were hit by 20 millimeter cannon shells from a B-47 reconnaissance bomber. Also some shells hit the streets in Sheboygan Falls. One of them landed a few yards in front of a squad car and this all occurred around seven o'clock in the evening on a Monday night. It was a rainy, cold, dark March night. The newspaper articles were very extensive indicating that everybody was safe, no one was hurt and after a number of years the story just disappeared and resurrecting the story during the last couple months. It's kind of interesting that while no one was injured during this incident, two people were within a couple feet of the shells that came through the roof of their houses and could have very easily created fatalities. So it's been an interesting project and talking to the families that were involved. We had the Navante family in Sheboygan Falls who lived very close to the point. We had the Dealey family from the southwest side of Sheboygan Falls that lives close to St. Mary Cemetery and then the Tooney family that lived on the northwest side of Usberg. So it's been a very interesting assignment and got a lot of enjoyment out of it. I just appreciate all of the help that the various family members have contributed. This photograph shows the Air Force investigation team that came to Sheboygan Falls on Tuesday morning, March 18th and also includes the County Sheriff and the Sheboygan Sheriff. This is at the Navante home right across the street from the point just off of Highway 23. This second photograph is a picture of the bedroom and the Navante home also and it indicates and shows where the dresser was right above the little girl's head is a scar on the wall. That's where the bullet hit the wall. If you look at the top of the dresser which has been pulled away from the wall, you can see a nick in the top edge of the dresser and the little girl is holding her piggy bank which was hit by the bullet as it came through the roof, glanced off of the piggy bank's head, nicked the dresser and hit the wall. Just one week prior to this event, the dresser had been off to the right and the crib had been where the dresser was and when this incident occurred, Sally, the little girl, was in her crib. This third photograph of the hole in the ceiling at the Dealey House indicates and shows where the bullet came through the roof and actually burled its way through a ceiling joist before it went through the plaster ceiling and then landed on the linoleum floor, bounced around and ended up underneath the bed. The police officers there are looking at where the bullet came through the ceiling and fortunately it lost a lot of energy when it went through the ceiling joist and didn't continue on through the house. On the table here we have a model of the B-47 bomber which was the source of the shells that hit the homes. This model was given to the Dealey family a couple months after the event occurred. The silver bullet and shell is a dummy that was also given to the Dealey family and the brass casing is a brass empty casing that came from the Heidemann farm near Hingham. All three of these items have been donated to the museum for future use. The items laying in front of the models is a scrapbook that was created by Harriet Tooney during the course of the event since it was national-wide coverage. She received a lot of newspaper articles from around the country. The other two pictures, black and white, is a photograph of a pilot. One of the two pilots in that first picture in the middle actually visited the Tooney home on a couple occasions and the other two pictures are photographs of the B-47. One of the pilots had promised to give photographs to the Tooney boys and that's where these photographs came from. Welcome to the third Saturday at the Sheboygan Historical Society. I'm John Madden from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sheboygan, South High, Class of 68, University of Wisconsin, Class of 73 and my Sheboygan collection is a tough one to put together because I live so far away in New Mexico but here we are today on 18 October 2013. What we have here are some photographs of a very old train car and the reason I bought this because it just says Sheboygan right up here Sheboygan actually had cigars, chief of them all and that was a phrase used for many different items, not just cigars. It was for soda and watch fobs and just a trademark. It's taken quite a while to find different penance over here and a lot of them are just what we call teresta things that you would buy when you're driving through the cities and the area but there's central high school there and I've got some friends on the police department and over the years they gave me a couple different Sheboygan police patches and just throughout my travels I've tried to find just whatever I can more central high, the Whirl Band in the top right corner there I played in that when I was in high school from 65 to 68 and then when I did my student teaching in Milwaukee I actually worked with Ken Whirl who was the nephew of the original Whirl who had the Whirl Band here in Sheboygan and as we move down here an old license plate that was in the garage at my neighbor's house so they let me have that when I was a little kid and I just hung on to it all these years. Bank bags from three different banks the one in your far right is quite, quite faded but it's still a Sheboygan bank bag. On the table over here we've got my bar tokens from Sheboygan these are really tough to find when you live so far away from home and to make them easier to see I've taken the time for everything in alphabetical order so this one starts with Al and Al's and a lot of people don't realize that bar tokens at one point were made out of metal so those are very, very desirable, very collectible and my collection goes all the way from A through Z way over to here to a place called Zimys Bar so it's really neat getting all these sort of things. Stamps also, they are canceled and it actually says Sheboygan, Wisconsin on them these are stamps that are pre-war and all the way through the mid-50s my grandfather was Dr. H. L. Rose, Marquette University class of 1912 and this is what he had in his office we talk about having to be bilingual these days well in those days from 1920s to the 1950s it was not unusual to have it in German and English and in my grandfather's case the terms were cash now here is a check from the German bank of Sheboygan and this is dated 1861 which is right at the start of the Civil War very difficult to find and I've got stuff like this hanging all over my home speaking of money this is known as obsolete currency this is only printed on one side this is a complete set, a one, two, three and five dollar bill it does not have an exact date on it it says 1870 and then the banker was supposed to fill it in at their discretion and put them out into the community in 1954 Sheboygan had their centennial and these are not wooden nickels these are more called wooden flats and they made them with a one, two and a five for a nickel, a dime and a quarter and they were differentiated by colors and these were only good if they were not broken until a certain date during that particular festival and as I said earlier the chief of them all was a Sheboygan cigar so we've got that here one of my prize collections are what's known as national currency and there were about four to five thousand national currency banks in the United States and every one of them had their own identification number this was known as a charter number this was the security national bank up in Sheboygan and this number was 11150 they made two types type one, type two and if you know what to look for then you'll know the difference but the prize piece of my collection is this twenty dollar bill Sheboygan, Wisconsin from 1929 to 1935 this is the first one ever printed so the serial number was the A series A-000-00-1 A I followed that on auctions for four years and lucked out enough to find this one and on my final table here we've just got my collection of metals and ribbons some of these are political and some of them are having to do with unions but most of them are actually religious metals some of these date back to the 1880s, 1890s and it's quite a conglomerate but they all in some form no matter what language they are in they will say Sheboygan and most of them will have a date on them also getting more close to Sheboygan if you can be that way we have Central High School North High School and actually I wore this beanie at Farnsworth back in 63 and 64 these two little awards here from the Sheboygan County Fair in 1943 and this I bought upstairs so make sure you go upstairs and buy one of these the Redskins was a great team back from 38 to 1951 coming further over I wear this one too the Sheboygan Legion post-83 but it's too small for my head and more metals and pendants and a lot of watch fobs and they always say Sheboy again one more over here if you can zoom in maybe on the top left one evidently there was a club of people who had beards back in the 50s which was kind of unheard of unless you were a I don't know what you might have been but there it is a very old phone book if you need information back in the 30s and I started collecting Sheboygan spoons a number of years ago before the prices silver went up and I never realized until just recently that they're all sterling silver I just thought they were just cheap spoons that say Sheboygan you know cheese, church, chairs and children stuff like that this top one here is really a neat one because it's got a swastika on it and it still says Sheboygan swastika was really a good luck symbol until the war and the last couple pieces over here are old tax certificates on ghee in the 1880s I'm Pat Mollendorf I'm happy to be here today and tell you about my collection of teddy bears my first teddy bear that I had is actually named Teddy and he's kind of over in the corner he's with the red shirt on there so I got him when I was born and it just kind of evolved since then probably when I was in fur making back in the 60s and my kids were little I had to make my own bear and I started with a Ming teddy bear and I marketed him through Neiman Marcus many, many years ago and I wish I would have kept one for myself which I didn't so then as I saw cute little bears through the ages I had to start collecting the bears I like the advertising bears because they all had their separate personalities and they kind of depicted the company that they were advertising for I found Harry Heathrow who's kind of in the middle there and he's from the London Heathrow airport and they do have many of those I guess throughout Europe but didn't get to collect all of those I do have Teddy Roosevelt up in the corner here and he's also a teddy that talks can't talk to you today because he's encased in the big cabinet here and one of my favorite ones is on the top and he's from the Civil War era he's the only teddy bear that has actual human teeth so I like him a lot he's got a mind of his own he sits on the top of my couch and every once in a while he'll jump off there won't be anybody around I'll find him on the floor so I don't know what's happening with that teddy but I do have the smoky bear I have the bear sting bears which you'll see over on the other case which the one is sitting in the little wood wagon and all these bears come in various sizes from big to little just like the furskin bears which is on the bottom down here in the case that's the largest size that the furskin's made and then it goes to the one sitting in the corner and the small tiny bears that rest with the policeman bear and the Air Force bear the foreign bear is that I brought along today the most well-noted bear I guess would be the one in the back which was a Mishka bear which is from the Russian Olympics that the United States boycotted and I find that he's a very valuable bear now and I have probably six or seven of them so I'm going to hang on to them for a while then you go over to the teddy bear toys which are the Sokies and the rubber bears at Squeak and the little roly-poly bears the bears in the front are foreign bears that have been collected from travels my daughter-in-law brought back the Chinese bear from China for me and my girlfriend brought back the bear when she was over in Germany and then I had the the little bear with bagpipes too now all of those bears also talk and make noises and things Snoozie over there on the bear rug he's a snoring bear right now he doesn't seem to be snoring he too is very temperamental not as much as this little bear here, Bubba Bear he comes with a voice of Jeff Fox worthy so the kids really like him they like to play with him a lot he's one of my favorites too so that's about the history of the bears I suppose we could talk about the Stifes and the Hermans and all those and I have some of those bears at home too but I have them in cases and they were kind of hard to get out of oh another bear that is bears that are really interesting are these little tiny tiny bears that's made in China they all put them together stitch by stitch there's no machine work on it at all and they're very hard stuffed and I find they're getting to be very collectible I think they were about $50 when I started with them and now they have just tripled in price she also makes some that I have a little locket bear that the bear actually opens up and there's a little locket in the center another one that you wear around your neck on a chain they're getting to be very very collectible and I would look for those if you're out in the store and probably try to pick up a real good value there so I thank you for being here I hope you enjoy my collection my name is Mary Turk and I have a collection of pyrography I'm showing at the Sheboygan County Museum this morning and my collection started with these two pieces that were in the family and they're over 100 years old and I will explain that the word pyro meaning fire thus pyrography and my collection consists basically of these pieces of women in profile and there have been times I've gone for years and not found a single piece some of the pieces these two pieces are over 100 years old this piece is dated 1907 this piece just made the 100 year mark 1912 this glove box is 1900 and basically it's an unusual collection or what I have been collecting but it's been very enjoyable thank you how do you do my name is Bill Wongerman I'm the city historian for the city of Sheboygan it's a job that's been sponsored by the city I have a lot of benefits that is I get no pay and I have no office but I got a lot of hours I can spend doing what I like to do all around me is a collection of photographs that I've gathered over the years many of them come out of the city of Sheboygan files I find them in the city hall buried here there and everywhere some of them were given to me by people who have photo collections at home people call up and say I'm a died and I don't know what to do with the photographs and so they they give them to me and I've collected them and I've probably got maybe 2000 or more right now what we have here is just a small portion of what we have collected over the years and it's sort of a view of Sheboygan frozen in time every time you take a picture here freezing history for just one moment or two so I've got many different categories of photographs from the police department and the fire department from city offices the first aerial photographs taken of the city were taken in 1925 there are pictures of various buildings all around the city many of them that don't exist anymore so the collection just goes on and on and on and people have shown a lot of interest in it over the years and we have a section on World War I and World War II and some of the people that were involved in it and of course having been on the police department myself that's the biggest collection I have but it's an enjoyable pastime and I put on many programs during the year at different places around the city request power point programs and the like so it's a collection that I hope I can pass on to someone some day so thank you very much my name is Scott Lavendeski and I'm the assistant city historian for the city of Sheboygan and I'm at the Sheboygan County Museum today with a collection of old postcards of Sheboygan and I enlarge some of the postcards to fill up the table and also to give people a little better view of the postcards and on the table I have some postcards like I have two of them here that show North 8th Street one is about 1930 and then this one is the same angle from about 1960 one postcard that I like to always point out is this one and it's really not a spectacular picture but it is signed on the bottom by the person who made the postcard and owned the postcard company and his name was GC Wincher and he even writes on the postcard that this is one of my views and on the back he writes that he is also in the postcard business so I've always liked this one over here is a picture from a postcard and it shows the interurban car number 27 car 27 was donated to the Railroad Museum in East Troy but it could not be restored but car 26 which was a matching car was also donated to the East Troy Railroad Museum and they were able to restore that one and they used quite a few of the parts from car 27 so car 27 does exist partially yet well hello my name is Bill Sharp I live in Cheboygan grew up in Cheboygan and I'm here today at the Cheboygan County Museum and I brought my Arrowhead collection out for public showing and it's a hobby that my father and I began back in the late 60's and all these artifacts were basically found in Cheboygan County on the southwest side of the Cheboygan Marsh and my grandfather started his homestead there many years ago and he bought a piece of land and he broke the land in the sod loose with a horse and plow one furrow at a time and he found a spearhead and that started at all the interest that he had was passed on to me and my father and I would go out on the weekends in the spring or in the fall or whenever we knew that the conditions were right a lot of times my uncle would say well I just plowed this field here if you guys wait for a rain it'll be just perfect for finding some Arrowheads out in the fields so he'd give us the okay and he'd give us the direction in which field to go and we'd spend some time together and we'd carry a stick for turning stones over as we go up and down the furrows or the corn fields and if we were lucky enough we'd find them laying right out in the open but most of the time they were half buried so then we'd look for an edge or a point or the back end of the Arrowhead or we'd see the flaking on the individual stones and then we knew we'd have an artifact and we spent 30 years we'd spend hours at a time but over 30 years I collected roughly 300 artifacts and it's just been a wonderful time for me and my dad to spend together not only finding the Arrowheads but going out there for the peace in this first display I have a couple of ax heads and this here it has a sharp edge on the back here that was probably a handheld axe whereas these are got some grooves in them for banding around a stick and something like these these are holes and this here is a trihedral axe or ads and I've been told that that's about 8,000 years old and this here is like a paint bowl I was called a paint bowl but it can be turned over and used probably for making fire by friction a drill type apparatus and we have some seltz here in this next display I have a number of stone alls and drills and I have some larger spearheads and I have a copper a copper all here that my grandfather had found and when my mother was young my grandfather used to pay her 10 cents a roll through the hole the weeds away from the sugar beets and apparently the story goes that my mother was so hard working so hard at holding the sugar beets that she didn't see this arrow laying in the roll so my grandfather kept that in mind and when he found one of the arrowheads that he gave me and in this final box I just have some more arrowheads they instead of having the notched arrowheads I have the tank point style arrowheads up here on the edge top edge