Model of grocery store
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1870
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Miniature of a store made with solid back and two sidewalls, front panels showing two painted windows and central opening for doorway with "Grocery Stores" above it. Against the back wall, a cabinet with shelves and partitions and 16 drawers (-2b - -2l) each with a gold painted knob and handwritten paper label. One each for: almonds, annis seed, cacao, cinnamon, cloves, fenel, mace, millet, pepper, pimento, raisins, rice, saffron, sape, vermicelle (one drawer not labelled); two free-standing barrels (-2l and -2m), and two tables (-2n and -2o), each with a post (-2p and -2q) supporting one end of an arch (-2r) from which hangs a pair of scales (-2x - -2z). Pencil scribblings over outside of structure.Possibly English. In 1820's style, possibly early 19th century.
place: label: made in
content: USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Charles McKim Norton
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1941-55-2-a/y
objectType: label: Type
content: models and prototypes
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Model of grocery store
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: wood; brass sheets, cast steel with knotted rope (scale)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 28.5 x 33 x 2cm (11 1/4 x 13 x 13/16in.)