Interested in researching shovels for your Pioneer impression? A good place to start is Stonehill College Industrial History Center-Archives & Special Collections which houses the Ames Shovel Collection. This group consists of 755 antique shovels and 1000 related objects dating from 1774 to the present. Possibly the largest collection of shovels in the world. See a sample of pictures at: www.stonehill.edu/sihc/Pictures/shovels.htm.
This is the mother lode of shovels available for research, so dig in.
This is the mother lode of shovels available for research, so dig in.
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