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Firearms from Evanston Chinatown
Read more: Firearms from Evanston ChinatownHey all, Welcome back to the Buried Chinatowns Blog! George and I have been hard at work cataloging thousands of Evanston Chinatown artifacts, but I’ve decided to take a break today to discuss one of our more interesting sets of objects: ammunition! Evanston may not have been the rough-and-tumble, gunslinging town that stories of the…
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Piecing together a historical flask’s identity
Read more: Piecing together a historical flask’s identityHello everyone, This is Evan again, back to share another historical bottle from Evanston Chinatown… or what’s left of it, anyway! While cataloging artifacts excavated during 2005 and 2006, we have come across many shards from a highly decorated, green bottle. While we were initially unable to identify it, a large side panel shard immediately…
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Shedding light on a railroad lantern lens
Read more: Shedding light on a railroad lantern lensHi all, it’s Evan again. Recently we found an unusual curved blue glass shard in our Evanston Chinatown collection that took some crowdsourcing and additional research to finally identify as a railroad semaphore lens! Mixed in with shards belonging to a variety of different bottle types, it was immediately apparent that this was no ordinary…
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