Want to make your visit more memorable? Below are pictures of several items scattered throughout the museum. Print the page off and bring it with you to see if you can find them all. And be sure to take the quiz that goes with each item to test your historical savvy!

Was this:

a) A trail sign used by hikers in the hills above Roslyn?
b) An exit sign used in the mine shafts below ground?
c) An exit sign out of the Roslyn High School boy's restroom ?

Was this:

a) A wooden door-stopper from the old Corner Saloon in Roslyn?
b) A wooden shot put from the high school's track team?
c) A wooden bowling ball from the bowling alley in old city hall?

These coal miner's paycheck stubbs were issued by the Northwest Improvement Company that owned the mines in Upper Kittitas County. After you find them in the museum, look carefully at the amounts on the checks which reflect what was left over after they charged their purchases from the company store.

How much is the smallest paycheck and in what decade were most of these paychecks issued?

Was this:

a) A kitchen cabinet used for storing pots and pans and utensils?
b) A kitchen ice chest used to keep food cold in the days before refrigeration?
c) An armoire for storing clothing items?

Summer, fall, winter, spring - coal miners always wore a heavy shirt to work because the mine shafts underground maintained the same year-round temperature which was:

a) 63 degrees
b) 58 degrees
c) 53 degrees

Was this:

a) A milking machine from one of Roslyn's dairies?
b) An instrument of torture used in the Roslyn jail?
c) A permanent wave machine from one of Roslyn's beauty salons?

This stereograph was an educational tool used in the early 1900s. It featured two lenses that viewed a double image placed on a manually adjusted cardholder. The Roslyn School District's stereographs came with an oak cabinet and several drawers of double-imaged cards.

The cards held double images:
a) to help students with poor memory.
b) to trick the eyes into seeing a 3-D image.
c) to make the cards wide enough to be seen through the view finder.

Troop 1 established in 1910 was the first:

a) Boy Scout troop in Roslyn.
b) Boy Scout troop in the state of Washington
c) Boy Scout troop west of the Rocky Mountains.
d) All of the above.

This December 1888 telegram sent from Roslyn to a Northwest Improvement Company official in Tacoma apprised him of mob violence in Roslyn instigated by:

a) Miners on strike against the company.
b) Store clerks asking for more pay.
c) Residents protesting housing shortages.

Was this:

a) A turn -of-the- century hot tub?
b) The first dishwasher in Roslyn?
c) An early model washing machine?

These street lamps lit Roslyn streets using:

a) candles
b) carbide rods
c) kerosene

These were:

a) Roslyn police uniforms
b) Roslyn firemen uniforms
c) Roslyn band uniforms