1860 - 1900 Hat Bathtub
date: label: date made
content: 1860 - 1900
label: date made
content: mid 19th Century
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: In the early 20th century Sears, Roebuck & Co. Inc. continued to advertise the hat–shaped bathtub for $4.20 in their catalog. In 1900, for five cents more, one could purchase a “Combination Bath Tub,” a cross between a sitz and a hat tub. Though an awkward–looking contraption, the advertisement claimed that there was “nothing better made in a tin tub.”*
label: Description
content: This hat tub likely had years of use. Though well worn, traces of the first green coat of paint can be seen beneath the second layer of beige on the tub’s exterior. The Sears 20th–century example notes that its 3-X tin bath was japanned and varnished on the outside.
label: Description
content: For more information on bathing and bathtubs in the 19th and early 20th centuries, please see the introduction to this online exhibition.
label: Description
content: *Joseph J. Schroeder, Jr., ed., <I>Sears, Roebuck and Co. Consumers Guide</I>, Fall 1900, (Northfield, IL: DBI Books, Inc., 1970), 920.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: World
topic: label: used
content: Bathing
label: referenced
content: Portable Bathtubs
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Bathtubs
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Dover Stamping Co., 1869
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.238049.0085
label: catalog number
content: 238049.0085
label: accession number
content: 238049
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tub, Bath
label: Object Name
content: tub, bath
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22.5 cm x 10.5 cm x 95.3 cm; 8 7/8 in x 4 1/8 in x 37 1/2 in