Trunk
date: label: date made
content: mid to late 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: Large, flat-top trunk with a scrolled hasp lock on front, oval wire handles fastened to lid and riveted to trunk ends, and two hinges at back; painted dark green on the lid top and four trunk sides, and dark red on the lid sides, hasp lock and handles. Wire-rimmed lid is made of two pieces joined by a folded vertical seam running front to back at center. Wire-rimmed, six-piece trunk has four vertical folded seams, two in diagonally opposite corners and two offset from the other corners and a two-piece flat bottom with folded edge. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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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.251349.0173
label: catalog number
content: 251349.0173
label: accession number
content: 251349
objectType: label: Object Name
content: trunk
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (rims, handles material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 20 5/8 in x 12 1/2 in; 33.02 cm x 52.3875 cm x 31.75 cm