{"id":996,"date":"2022-11-02T18:49:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T23:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/?p=996"},"modified":"2023-01-12T17:00:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T22:00:18","slug":"whats-in-that-drawer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/whats-in-that-drawer\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT’S IN THAT DRAWER?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Each drawer in the old card catalog at the Webster Museum holds a small historical surprise. (M. Rosenberry)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Do you remember library card catalogs? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the days of computers and electronic catalog records, these bulky wooden cabinets held individual cards for every book in the library\u2019s collection. To find the book you wanted, you had to find the right drawer and flip through the cards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of those classic card catalogs has been creatively repurposed at the Webster Museum, to the delight of visiting children and adults alike. It was donated to the museum several years ago by Spry Middle School, and has found a new life as a kind of surprise cabinet.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each of the cabinet\u2019s 25 drawers now holds a different historical curiosity. They\u2019re all very small items, of course, and run the gamut from jewelry and household objects to toys and personal grooming items. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cabinet has become a regular stop on school tours of the museum, and the children enjoy taking turns pulling open a drawer and examining the tiny objects inside. (Most adults are rather fascinated as well.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next time you\u2019re at the museum, discover for yourself how much history has been packed into those very small drawers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The museum, located at 18 Lapham Park, is open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Visit the website at webstermuseum.org<\/a><\/em> for more historical tidbits about our town\u2019s schools and teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Missy Rosenberry
Webster Community Blogger

See my blog at: websterontheweb.com<\/a>.
Check out my Facebook<\/strong><\/a> page and follow me on Twitter<\/a><\/strong> and Instagram<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you remember library card catalogs? Before the days of computers and electronic catalog records, these bulky wooden cabinets held individual cards for every book in the library\u2019s collection. To find the book you wanted, you had to find the right drawer and flip through the cards.  One of those classic card catalogs has been creatively repurposed at the Webster Museum, to the delight of visiting children and adults alike. It was donated to the museum several years ago by Spry Middle School, and has found a new life as a kind of surprise cabinet.   Each of the cabinet\u2019s 25 drawers now holds a different historical curiosity. They\u2019re all very small items, of course, and run the gamut from jewelry and household objects to toys and personal grooming items.  The cabinet has become a regular stop on school tours of the museum, and the children enjoy taking turns pulling open a drawer and examining the tiny objects inside. (Most adults are rather fascinated as well.)  Next time you\u2019re at the museum, discover for yourself how much history has been packed into those very small drawers. The museum, located at 18 Lapham Park, is open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Visit the website at webstermuseum.org for more historical tidbits about our town\u2019s schools and teachers. Missy RosenberryWebster Community Blogger See my blog at: websterontheweb.com.Check out my Facebook page and follow me on Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-webster-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/1014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}