For the 1900s parlor, donations included a pump organ, Victrola, treadle Singer sewing machine baby crib and board games, as well as an old violin and pre-electric vacuum cleaner.
At the Oceanside antique mart, the Nelsons found the kerosene lamp that lowers on a pulley for lighting, as well as the wall clock that hangs above the pump organ and the 1903 Edison Home Phonograph.
The entirely pegged (no nails were used) quilt rack was hand-made by a then-local woodworker and displays some of the oldest items in the museum — a hand-loomed coverlet from 1850 and two quilts from Jim Nelson’s grandmother.