Preserving Kettle
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: Deep, flared, circular body with angled rim, rounded pit bottom and 3 conical feet. Wire bail handle is looped through semicircular ears with faceted triangular brackets below integrally cast at rim; drop-shaped loop on ring is attached to a small staple or loop on body between handles. Hollow cast with long, single gate mark across center of bottom underside, raised "8" near perimeter. No cover.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Middle Atlantic
label: place used
content: United States: Delaware, Milltown
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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. Edna Murray Allen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.64.0791
label: catalog number
content: 64.0791
label: accession number
content: 253153
objectType: label: Object Name
content: kettle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wire, iron (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/4 in x 11 7/8 in x 10 5/8 in; 22.225 cm x 30.1625 cm x 26.9875 cm