Milk or Cream Can
date: label: date made
content: late 19th or early 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: Two-pint can with molded and tapered strap side handle topped by a low-domed cover missing its handle; japanned brown-black. Can made in four pieces: a tall, wire-rimmed, soft-soldered lapped-seam neck; seamless breast; cylindrical, folded-seam body; and flat bottom crimped at underedge, all joined by folded seams. Cover stamped as one piece with crimped rim and deep collar. Handle has folded-under edges and is soldered in place. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
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.251349.0176
label: catalog number
content: 251349.0176
label: accession number
content: 251349
objectType: label: Object Name
content: can, milk
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (rims material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior finish material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 3 7/8 in x 3 1/8 in; 13.97 cm x 9.8425 cm x 7.9375 cm