the town 's oldest families loaned freely of their almost priceless treasures , and during the week of the festival nearly forty thousand visitors paid a quarter each to look at eating-house menus from the 1890s , loggers '' bitts , axes , and peaveys from the 1880s , children 's toys from the 1920s , and over two thousand photographs and nine reels of movie film of life as it had been in derry over the last hundred years .