Tin Pail
notes: label: Description
content: This lidded tin pail was in use during the mid-19th century. Tin pails were extremely useful items, able to hold liquids and solids, used as cookware in a pinch, and most commonly as a lunch pail. Due to its cheap price, versatile uses, and ease of transportation, tin ware was often used as a trade good between settlers and Native Americans. The tin pail comes from a collection of over 900 tin related objects given to the Division of Community Life in 1962 by Kenneth E. Jewett.
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: American Enterprise
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content: Domestic Furnishings
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Kenneth E. Jewett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.251349.0041
label: catalog number
content: 251349.0041
label: accession number
content: 251349
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pail
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/4 in x 4 1/8 in; 12.065 cm x 10.4775 cm