Foot Warmer
date: label: date made
content: 1850-1900
notes: label: Description
content: Large, slant-top, rectangular wood-frame foot warmer or stove, with four slats on the fixed top and two on front and back; one hinged end. Contains a perforated tin box with ring-handled, hinged door that holds a rectangular, wire-rimmed, two-piece, folded and riveted brazier or pan for the heat source. Box top has five perforated bands; its two ends and three sections on front and back all have club- and diamond-shaped punches inside punchwork diamonds, circles and ovals. Brass post-and-bail handle at top center; two H-hinges and a hook-and-eye closure on hinged end of frame. Lapped and "T" joints secured with nails. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Pepperell
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.388592
label: catalog number
content: 388592
label: accession number
content: 182022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: warmer, foot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (box; pan material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (box material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (box door handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (post-and-bail handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/8 in x 18 7/8 in x 9 1/2 in; 23.1775 cm x 47.9425 cm x 24.13 cm