Gas Range
date: label: Date made
content: 1930s
name: label: maker
content: Detroit-Michigan Stove Company
notes: label: Description
content: The Detroit-Michigan Stove Company produced this Detroit Jewel Gas Range in the 1930s. The enameled-iron range includes an oven, a broiler, a drip catcher, and four burners. Gas fuel provided an instant and constant heat source and burned cleaner than coal and wood burning stoves. The enamel surface made the stove easier to clean. By the early 1900s, many households switched to electric lighting, leaving the gas companies searching for a new use for their product. Gas stoves successfully competed with electric stoves and are still used in kitchens today.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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content: Artifact Walls exhibit
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Sherrill S. and Stephen V. N. Yates
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0954.01
label: accession number
content: 1981.0954
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0954.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stove
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)