oven
date: label: Date made
content: 1837-07-29
label: patent date
content: 1837-07-29
name: label: inventor
content: Barker, David W.
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model (U.S. Patent No. 304) of a cooking stove with an elevated, stepped-back oven on three legs, made by David W. Barker of Clyde, NY, and patented on July 29, 1837. Open oven, designed to have sliding or folding doors on front and back, is enclosed by a flue at sides and top that is fed by the stove. Faint markings (either incised or inscribed) include "[D.W.] Barker" to left of smoke pipe opening, two circles on bottom inside oven, two more circles marked "Griddle" on stove top, and "Slide pan" on hearth. Soft soldered lapped seams. Two darkened paper tags tied to eye hook on oven front with white string are printed and handwritten with patent information and object numbers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Clyde
label: associated place
content: United States: New York, Clyde
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.251511
label: catalog number
content: 251511
label: patent number
content: 304
label: accession number
content: 48890
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oven
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 4 1/8 in x 5 in; 13.97 cm x 10.4775 cm x 12.7 cm