Sarah Rish, curator at the Allen County Museum, shared artifacts Monday with Rotarians at the Lima meeting.
Dean Brown | The Lima News
LIMA — Sarah Rish, curator at the Allen County Museum, brought some traveling artifacts to the Lima Rotary Club meeting.
Rish brought various items from the museum’s collection: fossils from the fossil room, an iron made in Wapakoneta from the 19th century, a corset and a Westinghouse radio from 1920. Rish displayed the items and asked the Rotarians to guess what they were. Some were obvious, some were not.
Artifacts in the Allen County Historical Society’s permanent collections include over 250,000 items, including but not limited to tools and equipment, textiles and costumes, personal and recreational artifacts, transportation artifacts, and art objects. The document collections contain manuscripts, books, manuals, periodicals, pamphlets, maps and plans, prints, negatives, photographs and slides, audio and video tapes, and microfilm. The objects and documents range in date from pre-historic to the present, but are predominantly from the 19th and 20th centuries.
“I think it’s important to get people passionate about history,” said Rish. ” If I could get you through that door, I’ll find something that interests you.”
Rish also mentioned an upcoming event in July.
“In July, we’re going to have another ‘Life in America’ event. It will be free for families. I’m covering the time period from the 1900s to 1910. When you leave the museum that day, you will have some kind of appreciation for what life was like in those days.”
The event will be July 14 and 15 from 1 to 4 p.m.
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