Padlock and Key
date: label: date made
content: 1834 - 1913
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Small, heart-shaped padlock with steel shackle, locking mechanism and small key with double circle opening in oval bow. Front of body is stamped incuse "M. W. & CO" in arched roman letters above keyhole. Alms box and padlock DL*245425.0078-.0079 were used together. Maker is Mallory Wheeler & Co., a lock and hardware manufacturer in New Haven, CT, 1834-1913.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Collection boxes have been used for centuries to solicit money for religious institutions and charities. Even those with little to spare might contribute coins anonymously to a strategically placed box. Unfamiliar in some American communities in the 1700s, these boxes became more commonly used in the United States in the 1800s.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, New Haven
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Giving in America
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Kenneth E. Jewett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.245425.0079
label: catalog number
content: 245425.0079
label: accession number
content: 245425
objectType: label: Object Name
content: key
label: Object Name
content: padlock
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (body material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (shackle; locking mechanism; key material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (locking mechanism material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, padlock with key: 1 in x 1 1/4 in x 1 in; 2.54 cm x 3.175 cm x 2.54 cm