Roaster
date: label: date made
content: 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: Bird or small fowl roaster with six hinged wire hooks (one pair over two pairs) inside the reflector and a vertical, tapered, C-shaped strap handle with a scrolled lower terminal on the outside to allow it to stand upright. Made from two pieces of tinned sheet iron joined by a folded seam that were then cut and folded at a right angle at bottom for a drip pan and a shallow or obtuse angle at top to reflect heat. Continuous wire-rolled rim; handle fastened by bent ends of its wire edges. No marks.
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.245425.0281
label: catalog number
content: 245425.0281
label: accession number
content: 245425
objectType: label: Object Name
content: roaster, bird
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (rims; hooks material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 12 1/8 in x 6 1/2 in; 22.86 cm x 30.7975 cm x 16.51 cm