Museum Talk

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Women have always loved jewelry and the Buffalo Island Museum has two jewelry boxes full of necklaces and earrings of the early and middle 1900s. They were worn by Beulah Blankenship and are on loan by her granddaughter, Janie Blankenship Miller. Ms. Beulah loved her "earbobs", a term southern women called screwback earrings. They had a small screw that was tightened to hold the earring in place. The gold and coral rose necklace and screwback earring set shown here was one of her favorites.

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