"Duck Shooting Gun Powder" Tin
date: label: date made
content: ca 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Red-painted, corrugated cylindrical retail tin for "DUCK SHOOTING GUN POWDER" made by the Hazard Powder Company of Hazardville, CT. Container is made of three pieces, body and inset, molded ends, all joined by folded seams. One end has a small circular opening with flat metal cap and the other bears a large, circular, lithographed white paper label depicting a duck standing in tall grass at center as a dog looks on in the left background, the scene bordered by product information; a few numbers and letters are scratched at top right. No other marks. Gunpowder inside. Two small holes at sides of cap are for wire loop.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Hazardville
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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 Kenneth E. Jewett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.257491.0057
label: catalog number
content: 257491.0057
label: accession number
content: 257491
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: paint (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, white (cap material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper, wove (label material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (label material)
label: Physical Description
content: gunpowder (contents material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 5/8 in x 6 1/4 in; 19.3675 cm x 15.875 cm