Thank goodness it's Sunday! Yes, I have a full day but at least I don't work today. I will go to church this morning and afterward out to lunch with a group from the congregation. Then I will come home and do my letters. Then the rest of the day, I can rest up for tomorrow...another 6 1/2 hour day.
Here are some more of the photos I took yesterday.
This is in the foyer and is depicting another old building that existed in Coffeyville during the 1892 raid on the two banks where the Dalton gang met their end.
This is a scene at the end of the foyer showing how the livery stable would have looked back then.
This is the scene looking into the museum toward the east from the foyer. It depicts the general store window.
This is a photo of an old hearse and coffin from that era and was sent to Coffeyville a couple of years after the raid so it would not have been used to transport any of the deceased at that time. But it is indicative of the method they were transported at that time. The coffin was to be only for "show". After the funeral or trip to the cemetery the deceased would be moved to a pine box before burial.
These men were the defenders who were killed by the Daltons on that fateful day on October 5th 1892. The museum is dedicated to them.
This case shows some antique typewriters. There are many things on display that are from that era but not connected to the Dalton raid. The historical society of Coffeyville just want people to be aware of the way the culture was in that day.
This case shows some old flatirons and depicts the way women had to iron before electricity. They put these irons on their old wood stove and heated them up to iron.
This case is in the east room of the museum and has much information about old Coffeyville and the culture at the time of the raid.
This is an area showing KGGF, the towns radio station in later years and some of it's programming. It was a 10,000 watt AM station and won many awards before FM was introduced. I worked there for 11 years in the 1980s and early 1990s as an advertising executive and was their top salesperson during most of that period .
This is an old record player on display there. If we had a needle, it would still play. These photos are of the museum main room and Coffeyville room (east room). I could not get photos of the Dalton room because it was full of visitors. Perhaps tomorrow will be slower and I can get photos of the displays in the Dalton room.
There are three rooms at the museum plus the foyer where the wall paintings depicting the town in 1892 are found.
The first room is generally about Coffeyville and that era in history .
The second room is also about primarily Coffeyville's early history and has artifacts contemporary with that period in it's history.
The third room is the Dalton room. It has the guns they used to try to rob the two banks that fateful day in October in 1892. It also has a 40 minute video done by the History Channel of the history of Coffeyville but also of the raid that day. The History Channel gave the museum a copy of their program. The last 15 minutes is strictly about the raid itself and many more patrons watch just that part.
Patrons are able to purchase tickets for both the Dalton Defenders Museum and the Brown Mansion as a combo for $9.00. The Brown Mansion tour is a guided tour and the museum tour is self guided. Everything is carefully labeled there at the museum. Children can do a scavenger hunt in the museum and get a certificate for doing it.
Anyhow, this gives my blog visitors some idea of the Dalton Defenders Museum where I am now working part time.
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