State Capitol keys

Titles: State Capitol keys (Supplied title)

Description: Sixteen keys of varying sizes bound through their handles by a loop of wire. The keys were found by a Capitol engineer in the ruins of the first state Capitol building of Minnesota, which had been built in 1853 at 10th Street and Cedar Street in Saint Paul. The building was destroyed by fire on March 1, 1881 and replaced two years later on the same site by a red-brick Victorian structure with a tower.

Dates

• Exactly 1881 (Discovery)

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 3613.H491.1-16

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 16 items

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 4.8 centimeters length (smallest key)
• 1.3 centimeters width head (smallest key)
• 1.9 centimeters width handle (smallest key)
• 15.5 centimeters length (largest key)
• 3.2 centimeters width head (largest key)
• 5 centimeters width handle (largest key)

Subjects

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