Audrey Palzkill is a Youth Experience Coordinator at the Wisconsin Historical Museum. She has a B.A. in English Literature from UW-Madison and loves the weird and spooky side of Wisconsin history.
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OBJECT HISTORY: Fiddle
One of the most popular ways for lumberjacks to entertain themselves was to play music on a fiddle, a stringed instrument more commonly called a violin. By the 1800s, fiddles were mass-produced in Germany, and many of those made were exported to North America where they were sold by mail order or in music stores.
OBJECT HISTORY: Nash Car
The Nash Motor Company, based in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was one of the era’s leading producers of motor vehicles, and their “Ambassador” sedan, first introduced in 1941, is a great example of Wisconsin’s car industry.