Hat Box
date: label: date made
content: late 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: Oval, flat-top, brown grain-painted hat box or trunk with a grooved midband around body, scrolled hasp lock on front, oval wire handle riveted to lid and one hinge at back. Wire-rimmed lid has two soft-soldered, lapped-seam pieces for the sides and a folded-edge top. Three-piece box has two folded, vertical seams for the sides and a flat bottom with folded edge; folded top edge with wire bead below. Interior painted flat blue; corrosion on bottom, possibly lined originally. No other 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.251349.0168
label: catalog number
content: 251349.0168
label: accession number
content: 251349
objectType: label: Object Name
content: box, hat
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper, wove (label material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (label material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (rims, handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior and interior decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 3/8 in x 15 1/8 in x 12 1/4 in; 28.8925 cm x 38.4175 cm x 31.115 cm