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[Fishing rod]

Description: Fishing rod that has a long yellowish-white rod with five [Blank] attached with yellow and black [Blank]. The handle is green painted metal. The cork grip is missing, mostly likely rotted off. The reel is a cylinder shape and is silver in color. It has four thin bars separating the two flat ends of the reel, and one big bar, the spool in the center with cloth string wrapped around it. One side has a crank for winding the string. It has yellow handles that have been painted black.
Date: 1960

[Soda Fountain chair]

Description: Soda Fountain chair from the shop where Jane Long had her last meal. The chair structure is made of forged iron, with two iron rods twisted around one another to form legs, feet, and back as well as a circular seat made of unidentified wood.
Date: unknown

[Highchair]

Description: Photograph of a wooden highchair painted white. The chair was made by John Walcik for his son Vladik in1911 in rural Fort Bend County. It is approximately 30” high, 14 ½” wide and 13 ½” deep.
Date: unknown
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