Ladle
date: label: date made
content: ca 1790
label: date made
content: 1790-1795
notes: label: Description
content: Old English type ladle with circular bowl and rounded downturned handle with midrib on back and "EMS" engraved in foliate script on front; no shoulders. Swage-formed drop containing a point facing up on back of bowl. Struck once on back of handle "R.Humphreys" in raised script in a conforming surround.
label: Description
content: Maker is Richard Humphreys (1749/50-1832); working in Wilmington, DE, 1771-1772, and Philadelphia, PA, beginning in 1772. A highly talented and successful silversmith, Humphreys is perhaps better remembered as a Quaker philanthropist whose bequest of $10,000 (one-tenth of his estate) established Cheyney University (originally named the Institute for Colored Youth) in 1837, making it the first and oldest historically African-American institution for higher learning in the United States.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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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 Mrs. Laurence J. Stabler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.67.0062
label: catalog number
content: 67.0062
label: accession number
content: 267623
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ladle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 13 5/8 in x 3 1/2 in; 5.08 cm x 34.6075 cm x 8.89 cm