Steam Cooker
date: label: date made
content: 1898
notes: label: Description
content: Two-pot vegetable steamer or cooker. The upper pot has a low-domed, molded cover with arched strap handle, two horizontal strap handles at sides, and is double-walled with a perforated liner, while the lower pot has a closed-end, conical handle reinforced where it is soldered to the pot, a horizontal assist or carrying handle on the opposite side, and a flat copper bottom. Both pots are wire-rimmed with vertical folded seams. Lower pot is stamped inside bottom in raised san serif letters "KREAMER" inside an oval, and has an attached, bead-bordered brass tag on one side that reads "WOODWARD & LOTHROP / WASHINGTON D.C."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
label: place retailed
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.178207
label: catalog number
content: 178207
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cooker, steam
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (lid material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (rims material)
label: Physical Description
content: copper (lower pot bottom material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (tag material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 7/8 in x 14 5/8 in x 9 in; 30.1625 cm x 37.1475 cm x 22.86 cm