Milk Can
date: label: date made
content: ca 1905
notes: label: Description
content: Three-gallon milk can with reinforced side handle, neck and body. Made in four pieces: a wire-rimmed, soft-soldered lapped-seam neck; tall, conical, folded-seam breast; cylindrical, folded-seam body; and flat bottom, all joined by soft-soldered folded seams with soft-soldered lapped-seam bands added at neck and at top and base of body, plus a seamless band around bottom. High arched, tapered strap side handle and bands on body have wire-reinforced, rolled-over edges. No marks. No cover.
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.251349.0180
label: catalog number
content: 251349.0180
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: wire, iron (rims material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 3/4 in x 8 5/8 in x 8 1/2 in; 40.005 cm x 21.9075 cm x 21.59 cm