Sugar or Flour Box
date: label: date made
content: 1840 - 1880
notes: label: Description
content: Cylindrical, flat-top, japanned canister with scrolled hasp lock on front, wire ring handle at top center, and one hinge at back. A faint gilt band encircles the overhanging, folded-edge top of lid; wire rim below. Canister is made in two parts, the body has a vertical folded seam and the flat bottom has a projecting, folded edge; its top edge is folded with raised bead below. Tinned interior. No marks. One of two boxes or canisters, DL*257491.0015-.0016.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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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.257491.0016
label: catalog number
content: 257491.0016
label: accession number
content: 257491
objectType: label: Object Name
content: canister
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (handle, rim material)
label: Physical Description
content: asphaltum (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (exterior decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/8 in x 5 1/4 in; 11.1125 cm x 13.335 cm