Wash Bench
date: label: date made
content: after 1855
name: label: maker
content: Cram, John
notes: label: Description
content: Folding wash bench. Rectangular top attached with pegs to pair of cross braces to which are attached a pair of crossed legs with plan stretchers. Leather strap with buckle attached to underside of top to hold stretcher and thus prevent table from collapsing. Mark stenciled on end of cross brace: “CRAMS PATENT/AUGUST 21 1855”
label: Description
content: John Cram of Boston, Massachusetts received patent 13,479 on August 21, 1855 for “a new and useful Improvement in Folding Chairs”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0923.01
label: accession number
content: 1978.0923
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0923.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bench
label: Object Name
content: bench, wash
label: Other Terms
content: Bench; Furniture
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 92 in x 37 13/32 in x 21 11/16 in; 233.68 cm x 94.996 cm x 55.118 cm