"The Brooklyn Bread Toaster"
date: label: date made
content: ca 1903
label: patent date
content: 1902-10-28
notes: label: Description
content: Four-slice, non-electric, stovetop toaster of hollow, truncated square pyramid shape with corrugated sides and flat base upturned at edge, both perforated; wire bread support or holder on each side. Matte black finish. Circular opening on underside designed to fit round stove burners. Embossed circular mark on flat top: “SILVER'S BROOKLYN BREAD TOASTER. (arched) / - PAT. OCT. 28, 1902 (curved)".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
topic: label: Subject
content: appliances
label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
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 Joyce Barth & Florence E. Scuderi
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0338.48
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0338.48
label: accession number
content: 1992.0338
objectType: label: Object Name
content: toaster
label: Other Terms
content: Toaster; Electric
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: sheet steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wire, iron (bread supports material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (finish material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/4 in x 8 in x 8 in; 14.605 cm x 20.32 cm x 20.32 cm