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Kitchen utensil. Description: Wooden masher, for vegetables and potatoes. |
Crock churn. Description: Stoneware churn with brown slip glaze, dark brownware base, wooden top. Wooden lid with hole, and dasher. a: Crock churn. b: Dark brownware base. c:... |
Basket. Description: Willow-ware laundry basket, large. |
Mirror. Description: Small wall mirror. "Cottage" mirror with molded, arched-top, red-painted frame. From the History Information Station: Mirror in wooden frame. The kitchen... |
Pot. Description: Dark brown lead-glazed red earthenware bean pot with handle and lid. a: Brown ceramic jar, small, with finger handle. b: Lid. From the History Information... |
Flour scoop. Description: Large tin flour scoop. From the History Information Station: Scoops were used to get dry foodstuffs such as flour and sugar our of the boxes or barrels in... |
Container/lid. Description: Wooden flour firkin with cover. Red with gray. a: Box. b: Lid. From the History Information Station: Bread, biscuits, pies, cakes, crackers... |
Container/jars. Description: Round metal box containing eight spice jars. Round spice box of Japanned tin, holding eight individual lidded round boxes. a: Round metal box. b-i: Eight... |
White porcelain cups. Description: Handle-less ironstone. From the History Information Station: Object: Ironstone cup, without a handle. Ironstone is a very hard, nonporous white... |
White porcelain cups. Description: Handle-less ironstone. From the History Information Station: Object: Ironstone cup, without a handle. Ironstone is a very hard, nonporous white... |
Lemon squeezer. Description: Hinged wooden lemon squeezer. From the History Information Station: Object: Lemon squeezer, factory made. History: Lemon juice was a common... |
cooking fork. Description: hand-forged iron flesh fork. From the History Information Station: Object: Pot, cast iron, lined with enamel. Made after 1874, through pots of this sort... |
Container/lid. Description: a: White porcelain sugar bowl with handles. b:lid. This is not porcelain. It's plain whiteware. - G. Hackett 11/89. From the history information... |
Chopping board. Description: Wooden chopping board. |
Wooden scoop. Description: Wooden scoop or paddle (butter-worker). From the History Information Station: This paddle, probably homemade, was used to beat the excess water out of... |
Conatiner. Description: Large Chinese, brown-glazed stoneware vinegar or soy jar. |
Churn/lid. Description: Gray salt-glazed stoneware (ceramic) churn with blue cobalt decorative "3" to mark capcity. |
Bucket. Description: Staved wooden bucket, large. Household water bucket of wooden slats bound with iron ring. The bucket always had some water in it to keep the slats expanded. If the... |
Grater. Description: Tin nutmeg grater. From the History Information Station: Tin Nutmeg Grater. The upper half is a compartment with a hinged lid, for storing nutmegs. Early... |
Coffee mill. Description: Iron coffee grinder. Clamped on cupboard. From the History Information Station: Coffee was as popular in the 19th century as it is today. But... |
Lacquer tea cannister. Description: Japanned tin cylindrical cannister with conical shoulder and fitted cap cover. Stenciled decoration and "TEA". a: Cannister. b: Lid. |
Knife sharpener set. Description: Whetstone set in painted wooden box with lid. a-b: Top and bottom From the History Information Station: This whetstone, for knife sharpening, is set... |
Doll. Description: Small porcelain doll. From the History Information Station: History: Little china dolls with black hair and immovable limbs were common toys in the 19th century... |
Muffin pan. Description: muffin pan made of individual stamped sheet iron molds attached to iron strips. From the History Information Station: Many settlers made and ate... |