De Kalb Meeting House Museum - Part 3

I moved on, following along the wall because there were no displays in the center of the meeting hall. This cabinet surely warranted a closer look:

There were lots of kitchen utensils, containers and serving-ware:

Cast iron skillets, hand scales, old enamel-on-steel coffee pots suitable for wood stoves or campfires:

Bread boxes, pitchers and all manner of kitchenware from "the old days," some older than others, all mixed together:

An old, burlap potato bag:

World War II uniforms for men:

And for women:

Old chests. The one on the bottom was from World War II. I know, because my father had one just like it:

And hand sewn samplers. My mother sewed one like this and gave it to her mother when I was very little. It graced my grandma's kitchen wall for the rest of her life:

This sampler was so old that much of the thread had faded. It apparently was made to help children learn their alphabet. Or did the youngsters sew it themselves as a form of lesson?:

This rather deluxe piece of furniture must have graced a home where there was some money:

And it sported a fancy tea set. But there was still a reconstructed parlor filled with furniture for me to see. I'll post about that in Part 4, tomorrow: