Chamber pot
notes: label: Description
content: "The lack of privacy in the latrines and showers was an embarrassing hardship especially for the older women, and many would take newspapers to hold over their faces or squares of cloth to tack up for their own private curtain...One morning I saw some women emptying bed pans into the troughs where we washed our faces. The sight was enough to turn my stomach, and my mother quickly made several large signs in Japanes cautioning people against such unsanitary practices. We posted them in conspicuous spots in the washroom and hoped for the best." Yoshiko Uchida, Desert Exile
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
title: label: Title
content: Chamber pot
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, General
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Haruko Morimoto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.3096.23
label: nonaccession number
content: 1986.3096
label: catalog number
content: 1986.3096.23
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Chamber Pot
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 10 in; 24.13 cm x 25.4 cm