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What items are NOT being accepted into the Hastings Museum Collection at this time?
- Pre-2000 military dress uniforms and accessories
- Clothing, shoes, accessories, and toiletry items dating before 1950
- Wedding dress or suites from any time period
- Most weapons unless it is model 1860 Henry Repeating Rifle or a Colt Single Action Army revolver patented in 1875
- China, glassware, silver unless it is a complete or nearly complete set
- Clocks and watches
- Furniture and household accessories
- Agricultural equipment and tools
- Tools for woodworking, leatherworking, masonry, metal working, mechanical repairs, and animal husbandry
- Spinning wheels, sewing machines, looms and other textile/sewing equipment
- Food processing equipment including jars, pressure cookers, and cutting tools
- Office and business equipment including, calculators, adding machines, typewriters, and computers
- Electronics including radios, televisions, telephones, musical playback equipment, and cameras
- Medical equipment and tools
- Optics including telescopes, microscopes, cameras, binoculars, and glasses
- Scales and weights
- Musical instruments including pianos and organs
- Transportation devices and accessories including lap robes, buggies, wagons, cars, and bicycles
- Newspapers
- Coins or currency
- Animals skins or bodies
- Rocks and minerals
- Fossils that do not have site information and not related to Nebraska’s prehistory
- Archeological material without clear site information or illegally collected
- American Indian artifacts without a clear history of ownership or illegally collected
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