"Green Mountain Rifle Powder" Tin
date: label: date made
content: ca 1849 - 1858
notes: label: Description
content: Flattened oval, japanned retail tin bearing a large, circular, lithographed, pale blue paper label on one side for "GREEN MOUNTAIN RIFLE POWDER" and "LYMAN FENTON & C\O" around what appears to be a view of lions or leopards in a palm tree-filled landscape. Friction-fit, low-domed, stepped cover fits over a double-collared opening at top center of the container, which is made in three pieces, the body has a folded vertical seam at side, and the low-domed, stepped shoulder and slightly concave bottom have soft-soldered folded edges. Cover and collars have soft-soldered lapped seams.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Vermont, Bennington
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. & Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.388746
label: catalog number
content: 388746
label: accession number
content: 182022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tin, gunpowder
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: asphaltum (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper, wove (label material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (label material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 7/8 in x 3 7/8 in x 1 5/8 in; 17.4625 cm x 9.8425 cm x 4.1275 cm