Chapman Portable Soda Fountain & Tufts Crescent Draft Stand
name: label: maker
content: Chapman & Co.
label: maker
content: James W. Tufts
notes: label: Description
content: James Walker Tufts (1835-1902) was a drugstore owner in Massachusetts who, in 1863, developed a soda water dispenser which he termed the "Antartic." When that proved successful, Tufts began manufacturing soda fountains. An inscription on this example reads “James W. Tufts / Crescent Draft Stand / Pat. March 30, 1880 / Boston, Mass.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Frank H. Sheperd, “Design for Draft-Stand for Aerated and Other Beverages,” U.S. Design Patent 11,714 (March 30, 1880), assigned to James W. Tufts of Medford.
label: Description
content: “THE GEM OF DRUG STORES. The New Establishment of James Walker Tufts & Co. Washington and Hanover Streets,” Boston Globe (June 8, 1874), p. 5.
label: Description
content: “JAMES W. TUFTS DEAD,” Boston Globe (Feb. 4, 1902), p. 3.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, Indianapolis
label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0318.02
label: catalog number
content: M-11544
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Soda Fountain
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass, ?, transparent (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: marble (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 45 in x 16 in; 114.3 cm x 40.64 cm