Housed in a relatively small building, the museum houses a collection of artefacts, documents and photographs. They have managed to squeeze an amazing number of interesting displays into the building. They have pictorial and textual displays on the Swiss Guides in Golden, the first Sikh People, Explorer and Cartographer David Thompson, Riverboats on the Columbia River, Red River Carts (with a replica cart), Metis people, Early Settlers and the Stolen church of Windermere. Artefacts include many household items and appliances, gold mining paraphernalia, and, outside, a collection of farm implements.
One of those, at the front of the line, is this Case Thresher. The name plate indicates that this unit was manufactured with a 28" cylinder and a 46" diameter blower fan. It bears serial number 111895. This thresher was built by the
J.I. Case Threshing Machine Company, formed in 1842 by Jerome Increase Case. It operated under that name until it reincorporated as the J.I. Case Company in 1928. In 1904, Case introduced the first all-steel thresher machine. The most recent patent date on the thresher is from 1906. The name plate states the company name as "J.I. Case" Threshing Machine Company, indicating that it should have been manufactured prior to 1928, giving us its youngest possible age. The
serial number, "111895", is in line with that vintage as it bespeaks a date of manufacture of about 1924. After 1931 they dropped the 28-46.