yet another 19th century "landfill" produces an abundant haul of historic chicago "rubbish"

yet again, i will kick off from a previous post... "the vast scattering of excavation sites in and around downtown chicago have provided a dizzying, seemly endless amount of artifacts discarded by chicagoans of the 19th century. the quantity of "hutchinson" type soda or mineral water bottles alone is impressive to say the least. moreso, the sheer variety of medicinal bottles, chinaware and condiment bottles extracted from these dump sites has offered tremendous insight into what was consumed during various decades of 19th century chicago."

so here we are again, with yet another "landfill" containing a vast amount of "trash" left behind by 19th century chicagoans. similar to previous finds as of late, we unearthed a large quantity of bottles, china, pottery, and miscellaneous artifacts. as i write this post the bottles discovered from this dump, along with others mentioned in previous posts, are soaking in water to be later cleaned and photographed. i managed to devote a few hours to gather some of the finds and photographed them in a another seemingly spontaneous manner. the image gallery shows part of the assemblage resting on the larger of the two john kent russell house (1855) privy-pit vaults, consisting of tongue and groove white pine wood floor boards, staves and riveted wrought iron banding. the large and intact fragment was extracted from the ground late last year. many more artifacts from this dump site will be posted in the coming days.

additional images of the second john kent russell house (1855) privy vault fragment itself, with a nice close-up of series of rivets used to connect the overlapping straps of iron used to reinforce the staves.