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Authentic period items are needed to help interpret the lives of the people who inhabited the home and to illustrate as authentically as we can the multiple uses of this National Historic Landmark. We are looking specifically for objects related to

• the experiences of the emigrant trail;
• the families who loved and worked on the ranch;
• the early history of Warner's Ranch and its environs.

Because the Ranch House at Warner's is such an early landmark of the western movement many of the items we would like to have are unique and can be hard to find.

We are happy to report we have some main items that have been donated already, the two rope beds have been secured, and a kitchen table and several very rare items are on long-term loan. SOHO purchased some items as they came up in the past year as we were preparing for the site's restoration; we now need to augment the small collection.

Please consider making a financial donation if you can, or if you have any of these items and wish to share them with the public by donating to the museum we would be extremely grateful. The date for all items unless otherwise noted is 1850's through the 1870's with some up to 1900 era items needed as well. This is a partial list, we will add to it as we learn more about what was used at the site through the archeological reports and primary documents. Replica items will be used as well, though they often cost the same as or more than originals.

Kitchen, Pantry & Dining
1858-68 working kitchen stove ($3,000)
Coffee pot
Tin drinking cups
Tin plates
Tablecloths
Kitchen towels
Tea ware
Glasses
Wine glasses
Dough tray/bowl usually wooden
Earthenware storage crocks and jars
Baskets (all variety of baskets would have been used)
Variety of perishable and non-perishable food such as salted meats, pickled vegetables, dried fruit, and coffee museum quality faux food & consumable products
Variety of cooking implements, pots, pans, mortars (cast iron or blacksmith made)
Feather duster
Brooms

Dishes in good repair in Creamware or any of these China patterns found on site and documented in the archeological report.

• Dinner plates
• Bowls
• Bread/desert plates
• Cups and saucers
• Serving dishes

Utensils/Flat wear in good repair in tin, steel, bone, or horn

• Forks
• Knives
• Spoons
• Serving spoons

Work room/pantry/storage room
Barrels
Flour sacks
Tin washtub
Crockery ware
Much more!

Stage office
Douglas chairs
Ledgers
Ink well, misc writing materials

Trading Post (This list is a big one and the items here are just a start!)
Bottles (variety of mid-century bottles of all types/labeled bottles especially desired)
Cowhides
Hide scale
Food scale
Barrels (of all sizes)
Large bottles (called demijohns or carboys)
Crates (shipping/storage)
Plank counter top
Store shelves (rustic style)
Store counter
Period guns (cap & ball weapons)
Gunpowder
Pound lead
Hatchets
Axes
Knives
Powder horns
Fishing and hunting supplies
Tack and wagon gear

A variety of liquor bottles

• Brandy
• Whiskey
• Rye

Various types of period tobacco, containers, & related items including

• Leaf tobacco
• Roll tobacco
• Tobacco boxes
• Pipes (clay, meerschaum, corncob)
• Rolling paper
• Snuff

Variety of foodstuffs e.g. sugar, salt, dried foods
Candles
Wicks
Oil lamps
Common drugs

Clothing items and misc sewing sundries

• Ready made clothing
• Handkerchiefs
• Thread
• Broad cloth and other period fabrics (linen and cotton cloth)
• Blankets
• Buttons
• Awls
• Needles
• Thimbles

Personal hygiene items

• Soap
• Combs (bone, horn, wood)

Writing & records materials (ledgers, journals, pens, ink, blotting paper)

Vicenta Carrillo's Bedroom
Area rug
Personal altar with items for altar
Dresser
Washstand
Washbowl and pitcher
Oil lamp

Foreman/Cowboy room
Shaving mirror
Washbowl and pitcher
Playing cards
Gaming pieces/chips

Main Living & Dining room
10 to 12 ft table and benches

Photographs, diaries, journals or letters
SOHO is interested in documenting and preserving the experiences of San Diego's ranchers, Native Americans, immigrants and pioneer families, as told through their oral histories, written reminiscences, papers and photographs, and objects. Specific materials of interest might include

• Letters (received or sent)
• Diaries
• Journals
• Photographs
• Scrapbooks
• Written reminiscences
• Books
• Paper Souvenirs

Wagons & funds to restore wagons
Chuck wagon
Freight
Covered immigrant type wagon
Stagecoach (Mud and Concord style)

Donations of cleaning supplies, yard & barn tools are helpful too

• Sturdy mop bucket & mop
• New or like new vacuum cleaner
• New or like new dust buster
• Rakes
• Shovels
• Pruners

Restoration work still needed

• Fireplace and Chimney
• Electrical
• Historic fencing

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