"Union" Lamp Stove
date: label: date made
content: after 1897
name: label: user
content: Collins, Herbert Ridgeway
notes: label: Description
content: Three-burner, tabletop kerosene or oil stove having one tapered rectangular fount for three oblong rectangular burners, each wick tube containing one long wick, and three inverted tapered chimneys cast as one piece, each with a pivoting rectangular window on front; topped by a fixed rectangular grate. Red and gold product decal "UNION" on one side of fount. Burner plate screws onto fount, while chimneys hook onto back side of burner and are secured by a spring latch or clasp on front. Fount top has a filling spout at one corner and is cast in with foundry name and location on ends.
label: Description
content: Maker is the Central Oil & Gas Stove Co. of Gardner, MA; started by William H. Wilder in 1875, but not known when ceased operations (sometime after the early 1920s).
label: Description
content: Lamp stoves such as this have been identified for being used to heat irons during the summer months, but were, in reailty, a portable multipurpose appliance used for cooking, heating and lighting in houses, at camps and elsewhere. According to the donor, his mother used this lamp stove in rural Caroline County, VA, during the 1930s to "heat food and bottle for him as a child."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Gardner
label: place owned; place used
content: United States: Virginia, Bowling Green
topic: label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
label: Subject
content: Cooking
label: Subject
content: Heating
label: Subject
content: Lighting
label: Subject
content: Laundry
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Herbert R. Collins
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.308112.0004
label: catalog number
content: 308112.0004
label: accession number
content: 308112
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp stove
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (burners, wick tubes material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (wicks material)
label: Physical Description
content: mica (windows material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/4 in x 9 5/8 in x 7 1/8 in; 24.765 cm x 24.4475 cm x 18.0975 cm