1830 - 1850 Boat Shaped Bathtub
date: label: date made
content: 1830 - 1850
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: Nineteenth–century bathtubs were viewed as furniture rather than fixtures. As such, tin tubs were often decorated with painted stripes and swags or marbleized to imitate wood. This tub, with its multicolored stripes around the top edge and its painted wood stand, would fit appropriately among the other "fancy" household furniture of the period. This tub likely was used in a dressing room or bedroom.
label: Description
content: For more information on bathing and bathtubs in the 19th and early 20th centuries, please see the introduction to this online exhibition.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States
topic: label: used
content: Bathing
label: referenced
content: Portable Bathtubs
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Bathtubs
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Susanne G. Swift
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.68.0723
label: catalog number
content: 68.0723
label: accession number
content: 275377
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tub, Bath
label: Object Name
content: tub, bath
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 44 in x 16 in; 30.48 cm x 111.76 cm x 40.64 cm