Hinged wooden box owned by members of the Ellis family
date: label: Date
content: 1875-1920
name: label: Created by
content: Unidentified
notes: label: Description
content: A wooden box with brass hinges, straps, tacks, and clasp with the interior lined in padded fabric and cardboard. The box and attached lid are constructed of cherry wood planks joined at the corners with a box joint and adhesive. There is decorative brass strapping on the front and back panels of the box and across the top of the lid attached with brass tacks of various sizes. Some tacks have been replaced by flat nails. There are brass hinges on the back that are held on with brass tacks. The tacks are gone on the bottom wing of the hinges. The interior of the box is lined with cardboard panels that are padded with batting and covered in fabric. A green ribbon with the text [Mione / CHEST] is attached diagonally across the interior of the lid over the padded fabric lining. The box has pigmented shellac on all of the wooden surfaces except for the bottom.
place: label: Place used
content: Orange County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Black interiors
label: Topic
content: Domestic life
label: Topic
content: Families
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Furnishings, Housewares, and Décor
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Clara Ellis Payne
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2012.42.7
objectType: label: Type
content: boxes (containers)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: cherry, brass, steel, cardboard, cloth, batting, and shellac
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 4 1/4 × 10 1/2 × 7 in. (10.8 × 26.7 × 17.8 cm)