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Title |
Wooden Box from Dahl Ranch |
Object Name |
Box |
Description |
Small wooden box; dovetail corners; sliding wood opening; 5 pounds with borax inside; patent date of May 27,1902; Fort Wayne, Ind USA.; made by Anti Borax Compound Company; has the E-Z trade mark; borax was used for taking scale off of hot forged items; grade 9; filled with borax. |
Provenance |
Samuel Zacharias Dahl (1893-1957), a blacksmith from Sweden, immigrated to Montana in 1912, and bought land near Warm Springs Creek in 1917. The forge and all the hand-hewn tools on display were used by Sam Dahl and his descendants at the Dahl ranch near Clancy. Samuel Z. Dahl, his Swedish birth name, worked in Helena as a repairman for the NPRR beginning in 1912. Sam married Bertha Benson (1893-1957) in 1918 and they moved to their ranch near Alhambra in 1919. Bertha was also a native of Sweden, arriving in the U.S. in 1913. She lived with her brother Carl, near Canyon Ferry, prior to her marriage. The couple had four children. Descendants of Sam and Bertha Dahl continue to reside on the ranch in 2020. |
Collection |
Dahl Ranch |
Caption |
Wood box containing borax from Dahl Ranch. |
People |
Dahl, Sam |
Used |
Dahl, Sam |
Catalog Number |
2020.61.5 |
Year Range from |
1920 |
Year Range to |
1950 |
Date |
Circa 1900s |
Search Terms |
Borax Box Wood box |
Subjects |
Anti Borax Compound Company Clancy, MT Dahl Ranch E-Z trade mark |