Luna Mimbres Museum, Deming New Mexico, Winter Sojourn 2014/15

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NOVEMBER 2014

More information about this fantastic museum can be found here,  and note, no entrance fee, aka, FREE!

Here are some photos, highlights of this great collection.  I took about 190 photos that day, many for my own delight.  The lighting many times interfered with a nice photo, but, not the memories.  In no particular order.

Front and back of what appears to be a early "oil" delivery "truck".  Nicely cleaned up, I was taken by this unusual vehicle, fascinating.

OK, how many of you remember what this is?  How many of you may have used one in your working days? I did! Yep, I sure did! I know, makes me an antique. 

I would love to have a replica of this hanging in my home.  Simplicity at it's best.

They actually had two "iron lungs".  Man and I have seen these in other museums, but, I believe this is the first "baby" size one we ever came across. (Get your kids vaccinated, we don't need polio coming back.)

Saddles, do they spark your imagination?  How many miles, how many riders, how many hours spent in the saddle?

See, the glare/reflections of the lights?  I tried, really I did.  SIGH.  A collection of bells.  It was so interesting.  Really!

A collection of thimbles and sewing aids, this is just part:

Lace and collars and - - - -

And, the doll room!  OHHHHH MYYYY!  You can read a very nice history about it here.

Isn't this lovely? I imagine someone refurbished it, but, just lovely.  OK, maybe "cute as a bug" is a better descriptive word?

Again, in no particular order here are some shots of Native American artifacts.  I believe most, if not all of these, reside in the Mimbres Indians Pottery Room:

Now, this rug, is very handsome indeed, and this is a word for word transcription of the signage the museum had below it:

“Navajo Rug

If this rug could talk, oh the tales it could tell.  Rumor has it that a cowboy walked into Madam Millie’s one evening carrying this rug.  He dropped it on the floor and said, “I want trade.”  The rug covered the floor of one of the rooms at Madam Millie’s for many years. It sure could have some good stories!  Talk to us! Talk to us!



Rug was purchased at a disposal sale at Madam Millies’ Brothel, Silver City, New Mexico.”

Outside the building there is a nice Veterans Memorial area, paying honor to those that have served to protect America.

If you ever get to Deming, do visit this jewel of a museum.  You will not be sorry.




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Troy Montana Museum

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Mid July    2013     We were staying in Libby Montana for a few nights.  We visited the Kootenai Falls and the Troy Montana Museum.  Local museums are gifts to America's citizens.  We find them just about everywhere we travel, and we visit many.  A few hours of visiting with the "ancient ones" and their stories and possessions.  Priceless.

Today's visit is a the Troy Museum and Visitors Center.

We never know what the local citizenry may have donated to their museums.  In Troy, we find Doctor Dixon's "shingle".

This particular collection had a good showing of housekeeping necessities.  I love the stove.  (As a side note, I am particularly glad I am not the caretaker here and have to dust all this stuff.  LOL)

This is a Toledo Cooker Conservo, its a stove top canner.  It was manufactured in Toledo Ohio, just a hop, skip and a jump from our stick built home in SE Michigan. The patent was in 1907, but, I have not been successful in locating it online.  I did find two blog posts about the Consservo.

One post was by a lady that purchased one (ca 1929 model she thought) and was using it to can.  The other post was by a lady that was using her mother's Conservo.  The family story/connection was interesting for me to read.

The note inside the cooker, reads, in part, "See p. 464 in Sears Roebuck catalog for Steam ..."  Seriously, you just have to love this stuff.

We have one more day and two more nights here in Libby, we would visit the Libby Dam and enjoy the beautiful area before we move on to Glacier National Park.

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THE Trip, THE Encore' :: Pahrump Valley Museum, Pahrump Nevada

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We enjoy visiting the local museums while we travel, these small towns have great museums.  Kudos to the local residents for preserving your heritage and history.  We find they are passionate about their towns and their collections.

This museum (according to the information from one of the staff) was gifted with a collection of sculptures, this is just one, of many, something a bit different.

I took no photos inside the museum.  They do have one of the most impressive collections of Lincoln (as in President Abe Lincoln) memorabilia I believe I have ever seen. They also have a very impressive display, including videos and photos and more about the Nevada Test Site, aka Nevada National Security Site.  There is no way I understood most of the display, but, it was a recent addition to the museum and was well displayed, roomy, techy.

The museum has a very nice collection of buildings, old ones, taken from locations around Nye County, dismantled in some instances log by log and rebuilt at the museum site.

One of the buildings is the Raycroft Railroad Tie Cottage, built in 1947 as a vacation cottage for Ida and Jim Raycraft.  It was built from railroad ties from the Tonopah & Tidewater Rail Road (note: they don't need to use creosote on the ties in this dry climate, they just do not rot away.)  Here is a room from the Raycroft cottage:

Lots of mining was done in this area, the museum has buildings and equipment that were rescued from old mines.  Here is Man gaining entrance to a "Miner's Cabin".  The information we were provided with during our walk around of the grounds tells us that these structures (shacks as they called them in the literature) built for housing were easy to dismantle if they wished to move it on to another mine or cheap enough to just abandon.

Inside, cook stove and some kitchen necessities:

And, in the other corner, a bed (I hear all the ewwwwwwwwwwwww's, I said them too, shudder, shudder).   

Little Red Schoolhouse, in use as late as 1945, it is from Clay Camp, Amargosa.

Inside the one room school house, and yes, in that back left corner, there is a dunce hat and chair.

Some more of the unusual but, oh, so interesting, buildings would be the grain silos, two of them in fact.  They were built before 1957 at the Pahrump Ranch, and are built of redwood.

We gained some appreciation and understanding of the area by visiting the Pahrump Valley Museum.

By the way if you are on FB (the blue social media site) type in the name Pahrump Valley Museum in the search engine at FB.  They have a page and some neat history about  the Little Red School House, arriving at the museum in 2006 and the rehab of it.  They also list upcoming programs and speakers and such.

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