Knife and fork
name: label: user
content: Crocker, John S.
notes: label: Description
content: These utensils were issued in 1862 to Prisoner-of-War Colonel John S. Crocker, 93rd New York Volunteers, by the commandant of Libby Prison. A knife and fork would become hard to find once prisons became overcrowded. Many prisons became notorious "hell holes."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: related event
content: Civil War
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Civil War
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content: Military
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.75528M
label: accession number
content: 296035
label: catalog number
content: 77528M
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife and fork
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: bone (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/4 in x 1 in x 1/2 in; 23.495 cm x 2.54 cm x 1.27 cm