Spectacles

Object/Artifact

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St. Joseph Museums

Name/Title

Spectacles

Entry/Object ID

2024.30.1

Description

Benjamin Franklin-style spectacles Spectacles found in a grave on Wyeth Hill in St. Joseph, Mo. in 1935. Probably a cholera victim, hurriedly buried on the river bank by a steamboat captain and crew about 1848 during the cholera epidemic which swept through the river towns from New Orleans.

Material

Glass, Metal

Color

Silver