Grocer's Bin
date: label: date made
content: late 19th or early 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: Grocer's bin with a rounded, semicylindrical top on a rectangular base, and a flat, angled, hinged lid with a scrolled clasp at top center and two hinges along bottom; no handles. Exterior top, front, sides and bottom are painted a flat red-brown; back left plain. Container is made in four large pieces, the top and base joined by horizontal folded seams and the back and front with folded edges. Arched opening has wire-rolled rims, while the lid has a folded edge and flange. 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.263901.0143
label: catalog number
content: 263901.0143
label: accession number
content: 263901
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bin, grocer's
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 material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 7/8 in x 19 3/4 in x 15 in; 32.7025 cm x 50.165 cm x 38.1 cm