Wicker Laundry Hamper
name: label: user
content: Custer, George Armstrong
label: user
content: Custer, Elizabeth Bacon
notes: label: Description
content: Elizabeth ("Libbie") Bacon, a Michigan judge's daughter, was bright and well educated. She married George Armstrong Custer (West Point Class of June 1861) in 1864. Although he had graduated at the bottom of his class, Custer immediately distinguished himself in the Civil War as a flamboyant, heedlessly brave cavalry officer. At age 23 he held the temporary rank of major general, the youngest in the Union Army. After the war, Libbie accompanied her husband to his assignment as commander of the 7th Cavalry. For the next decade, the Custers established homes at several frontier army posts where they made use of this wicker laundry hamper.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Military
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Myron J. Liberman and Susan Beller in memory of Gilbert and Esther Liberman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0358.01
label: accession number
content: 1997.0358
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0358.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hamper
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wicker (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: canvas (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 67.5 cm x 55 cm; 26 9/16 in x 21 5/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 in x 21 1/2 in x 18 1/2 in; 71.12 cm x 54.61 cm x 46.99 cm