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900 item Emil O. Deere Pioneer Collection
​ ~ From Old Main to the McPherson County Old Mill Museum, 1966
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In his chapter on the Museum, Dr. Leon Lungstrom writes that Deere, at eighty-nine (89), was preparing for the Museum's final College end, for the distribution of its two major collections, the Natural History Collection which would include the Taxidermy Specimens; and the Pioneer Collection which would include museum founder Udden's American Indian Cliff Dweller Pottery Collection of 300 items and Emil O. Deere's Pioneer Swedish Life Collection of 900 items.  There would be a total of about 5,000 Bethany College Museum items added to the 500 items at the McPherson County Old Mill Museum.

Source: 'Antique & Collectors Mart" September 1976, Wichita, Kansas, "Your Midwest Guide to Antique Values" by Betty Hanson

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