Bed has four baluster posts with mounted finials. The sides & ends are fence-like, with plain flat top and bottom rail. Spindles on sides & ends have round and turned ornamentation. One side is hinged along lower edge. Bed is mounted on double castors. This bed in which all the Rouse children were cradled, was given to the donor’s father, Dr. John Ellsworth Burby, by Dr. Rouse before the donor’s birth, July 11, 1903. Donor’s father’s office faced Jefferson St. on the 2nd floor of Rouse’s Hall. See photo of Rouse’s Hall in A. W. Oakford’s History of Peoria.