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Roslyn Museum Scavenger Hunt

Want to make your visit more memorable? Below are pictures of many 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!  Get stuck...   ask for assistance from a friendly museum Volunteer

Picture
This is:
a)   a wooden pogo stick

b)   a loggers tweezers

c)   a corn planter

Picture

This device is:
a)   an apple peeler and corer

b)   a very old pencil sharpener

c)   a device to open jars


Picture
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?


Picture
This is:

a)   a fishing pole for a very 
shallow lake

b)   a transmission from a Model T automobile

c)   a scale used to weigh buckets of milk at a dairy



Picture
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?


Picture
This is; 


a)   King Arthurs sword "Excaliber"

b)   a picture of a jet plane looking from above

c)   A tool called a "Sprag", used by a man called a "Rope rider" to stop mine cars rolling down the slope of the "Tipple" to be dumped into railroad cars

Picture
This is:


a)   an Edison cylinder player used prior to the flat disc record players

b)   the first stereo player

c)   a crank operated potato peeler

Picture
This stereograph was an educational tool and amusement device used in the early 1900s.
The cards held double images:
a) to help students with poor memory.
b) to trick the eyes into seeing a 3-D images                                                    c) to make the cards wide enough to be seen through the view finder.


Picture
This is
a)   a petrified Armadillo

b)   a mammoth tooth discovered near the Yakima river

c)   a fried walrus brain


Picture
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.

Picture
This is:



a)   a breathing apparatus used in the mines called a Dreger unit first used in the 1909 roslyn coal mine explosion

b)   Darth vaders first mask

c)   a dehydrted scuba diver
  

Picture
This is

a)   a  Knights helmet

b).  a  3 piece  miners "lunch bucket" the food went in the top covered by the lid and the liquid went in the bottom covered by the food container which nestled into the liquid container...   3 pieces

c)    a  double boiler for making pudding



Picture
This item is very easy to find and it is:



a)   a device to press the lid on a canning jar

b)   a fruit press for making juices,   apple,  grape.  pear

c)   a medieval torture device


Picture
Was this:

a) A turn -of-the- century hot tub?

b) The first dishwasher in Roslyn?

c) An early model water powered ;washing machine?

Picture
This one is very hard to find , but keep in mind things will be looking "up" when you find it.....it is:


a)   a wooden frying pan minus its handle
   
 b)   a noahs ark for mice

c)   a wooden hat box for a stove pipe hat


Picture
These street lamps lit Roslyn streets  for many years, the one on the right used a light bulb, the round one on the left used:

a)   candles

b)   one metal electrode and a carbon rod with 220 volts of electricity that formed an arc : resulting in the name "Arc light"

c)   kerosene

Picture
Was this



a)   a bingo number mixer

b)   a butter churn

c)   a container for kite string

Picture
These are:



a)   The jolly green giants chopsticks

b)   parts of a broken fence

c)    home made skis fashioned from the staves of barrels with leather straps to attach them to your feet

Picture
This is;


a)   a small parlor stove

b)   a safety phone (explosion and hopefully cave in  proof) used inside the mines for communication

c)   a lunch box with lid

Picture
This is:


a)   Rabbit ears for a small TV

b)   a broken salad fork

c)   a device (called a "rapper" carried by  a man called a "rope rider" who traveled in and out of the mines on the mine cars...  This device was used to signal the operator of the hoist on the outside of the mine almost a mile away, (with a Morse type code) the rope rider instructed the hoist operator to perform various actions like up, down, stop, etc., etc..

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