Foot Warmer (Foot Stove)
date: label: date made
content: 1810 - 1840
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular, two-slat-top wooden frame with thumb-molded top rails and plain bottom rails joined by through tenons doweled together by opposed double-baluster corner posts that encloses a perforated tin box with wire-rimmed, hinged door containing a tapered circular pan for heat source; wire bail handle hooks through loops on frame top and wire split-pin loop pull is on box door. Box top has three bands of punched diamonds, while sides feature one large hole inside a dimpled heart in a punched circle; box top and bottom are folded over two-piece sides with soft-soldered lapped seam. Three-piece pan has folded seams and wire rim. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New England
label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut
label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island
label: place used
content: United States: Massachusetts, Norwood
topic: label: Subject
content: Heating
label: Subject
content: Church
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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 Mrs. H. B. (Clara Babcock) Blackmar
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.59.2222
label: catalog number
content: 59.2222
label: accession number
content: 220211
objectType: label: Object Name
content: warmer, foot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron, tinned sheet (panels; pan material)
label: Physical Description
content: wire, iron (handles material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 7/8 in x 9 in x 7 3/4 in; 14.9225 cm x 22.86 cm x 19.685 cm