"Summer Girl" No. 1 Lamp Stove
date: label: date made
content: ca 1893
label: date made
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label: patent date
content: 1893-12-26
notes: label: Description
content: Single-burner, tabletop kerosene or oil stove having a tapered rectangular fount, an oblong rectangular burner with integrally cast handle and wick tube containing one long wick, and an inverted tapered chimney with one rectangular window topped by a fixed rectangular grate. Red and gold product decal "SUMMER GIRL" on one side of fount. Burner screws onto fount, while chimney hooks onto one long side of burner and is secured by a spring latch or clasp on the other. Fount top has a filling spout with fluted cover at one corner and is cast with product size and name, patent date, and possibly the foundry's trademark.
label: Description
content: John De Mooy Jr. and William H. Clemes, assignors to Taylor & Boggis Foundry, all of Cleveland, OH, received U.S. Patent No. 511,737 on December 26, 1893. Taylor & Boggis ("T & B") was in operation from 1868-2012; its factory wasbeing redeveloped into a sustainable fish farm and urban arts complex (as of September 2015).
label: Description
content: Lamp stoves such as this have been identified for being used to heat irons during the summer months, but were, in reailty, a portable multipurpose appliance used for cooking, heating and lighting in houses, at camps and elsewhere.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cleveland
topic: label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
label: Subject
content: Cooking
label: Subject
content: Heating
label: Subject
content: Lighting
label: Subject
content: Laundry
label: Subject
content: Patented
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Estate of Knowlton K. Boyce (through Ransom K. Boyce)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0677.01
label: accession number
content: 1979.0677
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0677.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp stove
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (grate, burner, fount material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (spring clasp, fount cover material)
label: Physical Description
content: mica (window material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (wick material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 7/8 in x 6 5/8 in x 4 5/8 in; 22.5425 cm x 16.8275 cm x 11.7475 cm