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Catalog # Name Description
1 00.31.3.6 Novelty Cowry shell with the Lord's Prayer etched into the top.
2 00.31.3.7 Novelty Conch shell with the lords prayers written on the top.
3 1971.8.1 Novelty Painted Desert of Arizona in an upside down shotglass. Purple felt on bottom. Sticker on glass says "Painted Desert of Arizona."
4 1986.4.292 Book "Daily Food for Christians" small brown book with red pages, Aletha Jacobs Jan 1, 1919
5 1989.20.1 Sculpture William Otto La Brea Tar Pit Bronzium ice age sculpture made as part of a 13 peace set in 1959. This example is of the American Bison Antiquus
6 1989.20.2 Sculpture William Otto La Brea Tar Pit Bronzium ice age sculpture made as part of a 13 peace set in 1959. This example is of a Camelops
7 1989.20.3 Sculpture William Otto La Brea Tar Pit Bronzium ice age sculpture made as part of a 13 peace set in 1959. This example is of the mastadon.
8 1989.20.4 Sculpture William Otto La Brea Tar Pit Bronzium ice age sculpture made as part of a 13 peace set in 1959. This example is of a peccary.
9 1989.20.5 Sculpture William Otto La Brea Tar Pit Bronzium ice age sculpture made as part of a 13 peace set in 1959. This example is of a Sabertooth Cat
10 1989.43.718 Novelty Paperweight advertising for "Western State Bank"; blackened on one side. Looks like a stack of gold coins and says "Capital $500,000" in the center.
11 1990.58.3 Novelty Teal ceramic horse. Green pottery with a burgundy mane and tail. Blue to black hooves.
12 1990.58.83 Novelty Iron paperwork that commemorates the Alamo Iron works/ Paperwork shows the image of the Alamo and says "Since 1878" on the bottom. It is painted a gold color and pigment is in good shape.
13 2008.14.15 Notebook Small leather covered booklet with "My Lady's Shopping Book" imprinted on the front. Piece of mirror on inside of front cover. The pages are written on in pencil and contain what seem to be evaluations of an musings about teachers. A majority of the paper in this booklet goes unused. On the back inside the cover is a short poem written in print rather than cursive. The front cover has scratch going all the way across. Mirror is tarnished.
14 3.3.682.7 Novelty Carved stone books are a form of American folk art. They were given as tokens of affection The first American stone books show up about 1860, including books carved by soldiers during the Civil War, but seem to be most popular from 1870 to 1900. Typically stone books were carved from marble, often white, because it was widely available and easy to carve compared with igneous rocks. Slate, sandstone, limestone, agate, and pipestone are also used. This stone book is caved from red and blue limestone.
15 3.3.682.8 Novelty Carved stone books are a form of American folk art. They were given as tokens of affection The first American stone books show up about 1860, including books carved by soldiers during the Civil War, but seem to be most popular from 1870 to 1900. Typically stone books were carved from marble, often white, because it was widely available and easy to carve compared with igneous rocks. Slate, sandstone, limestone, agate, and pipestone are also used. This stone book is caved from red limestone.
16 MAC-177 Book Little Book of Great Expectations by artist Emily Bruggeman. 2013 gift to Rod Library from the College of Humanities, Arts and Sciences. Recycled paper. MAC-177 (Book) image
17 MAC-181 Copper Untitled (necklace) by artist Alexa Tuller. 2009 Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition at UNI Gallery of Art purchased by the College of Humanities, Arts, and Sciences and later gifted to Rod Library in 2015. The necklace is copper and is on a steel strand. MAC-181 (Copper) image