Foot Warmer
date: label: date made
content: 1825-1850
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular, slat-top, wood-frame foot warmer or stove with opposed double-baluster supports that holds a perforated tin box with wire-rimmed, hinged door. Contains a cylindrical, riveted brazier or pan with folded edge for holding heat source; riveted tab handle. Box top with three bands of perforations; box sides feature a heart in a circle and five diamonds. Wire bail handle hooked through loops on frame top; wire loop pull on box. Doweled through-tenon joints. No marks.
label: Description
content: Used by Dr. Nathaniel Howard (1783-1852).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place probably made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Lowell
label: place used
content: United States: Massachusetts, Lowell
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 Mr. and Mrs. Fielding Pope Meigs, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.67.0582
label: catalog number
content: 67.0582
label: accession number
content: 248268
objectType: label: Object Name
content: warmer, foot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (box; pan material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (box material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (handles material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 8 7/8 in x 7 5/8 in; 15.24 cm x 22.5425 cm x 19.3675 cm