Domestic Furnishings

Washboards, armchairs, lamps, and pots and pans may not seem to be museum pieces. But they are invaluable evidence of how most people lived day to day, last week or three centuries ago. The Museum's collections of domestic furnishings comprise more than 40,000 artifacts from American households. Large and small, they include four houses, roughly 800 pieces of furniture, fireplace equipment, spinning wheels, ceramics and glass, family portraits, and much more.

The Arthur and Edna Greenwood Collection contains more than 2,000 objects from New England households from colonial times to mid-1800s. From kitchens of the past, the collections hold some 3,300 artifacts, ranging from refrigerators to spatulas. The lighting devices alone number roughly 3,000 lamps, candleholders, and lanterns.

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maker
Enoch Wood and Sons
ID Number
CE.62.885A
catalog number
62.885A
accession number
171126
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maker
Edge, Malkin and Company
ID Number
CE.62.946K
catalog number
62.946K
accession number
171126
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maker
Meigh, Charles
ID Number
CE.62.949M
catalog number
62.949M
accession number
171126
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maker
Stevenson & Williams
ID Number
CE.62.974O
catalog number
62.974O
accession number
171126
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maker
Mellor, Venables and Company
ID Number
CE.62.955J
catalog number
62.955J
accession number
171126
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maker
James & Ralph Clews
ID Number
CE.62.905V
catalog number
62.905V
accession number
171126
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maker
Job & John Jackson
ID Number
CE.62.942B
catalog number
62.942B
accession number
171126
This platter features a transfer print of the Pennsylvania Hospital building in Philadelphia and is part of J&W Ridgway's "Beauties of America" series, a blue transfer decorated dinner service decorated with views of American buildings and a border of roses on the vine, superimpo
Description
This platter features a transfer print of the Pennsylvania Hospital building in Philadelphia and is part of J&W Ridgway's "Beauties of America" series, a blue transfer decorated dinner service decorated with views of American buildings and a border of roses on the vine, superimposed on regularly formed, lighter blue leaves.
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date made
1814-1830
maker
J & W Ridgway
ID Number
CE.62.909S
catalog number
62.909S
accession number
171126
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maker
James & Ralph Clews
ID Number
CE.62.901B
catalog number
62.901B
accession number
171126
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maker
James & Ralph Clews
ID Number
CE.62.907D
catalog number
62.907D
accession number
171126
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maker
William Ridgway, Son & Co.
ID Number
CE.62.916O
catalog number
62.916O
accession number
171126
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maker
Godwin, Thomas
ID Number
CE.62.950Ab
catalog number
62.950Ab
accession number
171126
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maker
Enoch Wood and Sons
ID Number
CE.62.875G
catalog number
62.875G
accession number
171126
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maker
Mayer, Thomas
ID Number
CE.62.920B
catalog number
62.920B
accession number
171126
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maker
James & Ralph Clews
ID Number
CE.62.906P
catalog number
62.906P
accession number
171126
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maker
John Rogers and Son
ID Number
CE.62.937A
catalog number
62.937A
accession number
171126
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maker
James & Ralph Clews
ID Number
CE.62.908P
catalog number
62.908P
accession number
171126
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maker
John Rogers and Son
ID Number
CE.62.937C
catalog number
62.937C
accession number
171126
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maker
James & Ralph Clews
ID Number
CE.62.908R
catalog number
62.908R
accession number
171126
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maker
Stevenson & Williams
ID Number
CE.62.974AB
catalog number
62.974AB
accession number
171126
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maker
Enoch Wood and Sons
ID Number
CE.62.883Hab
catalog number
62.883Hab
accession number
171126
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maker
Stubbs, Joseph
ID Number
CE.62.917N
catalog number
62.917N
accession number
171126
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ID Number
CE.62.988
catalog number
62.988
accession number
171126
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Location
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maker
Meigh, Charles
ID Number
CE.62.949Gb
catalog number
62.949Gb
accession number
171126

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