Bayonet from the excavation of a privy at 1304 Howard Street
This file appears in: Archaeology of the Melpomene Neighborhood at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Excavation of a Privy at 1304 Howard/LaSalle
The bayonet illustrated here was probably the most distinctive of all of the artifacts recovered from the privy at 1304 Howard/LaSalle Street. This knife-style bayonet would mount on a rifle or musket and likely used as military gear. The initial report on this object assumed it dated from the U.S. Civil War.
This file appears in: Archaeology of the Melpomene Neighborhood at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Excavation of a Privy at 1304 Howard/LaSalle
Archaeology of the Melpomene Neighborhood at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Excavation of a Privy at 1304 Howard/LaSalle
In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, many of the people who lived in the Melpomene neighborhood of Central City rented their residences with some addresses seeing rapid turnover. …