Gas Range
Gas Range
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- Description
- The Detroit-Michigan Stove Company produced this Detroit Jewel Gas Range in the 1930s. The enameled-iron range includes an oven, a broiler, a drip catcher, and four burners. Gas fuel provided an instant and constant heat source and burned cleaner than coal and wood burning stoves. The enamel surface made the stove easier to clean. By the early 1900s, many households switched to electric lighting, leaving the gas companies searching for a new use for their product. Gas stoves successfully competed with electric stoves and are still used in kitchens today.
- Object Name
- stove
- Date made
- 1930s
- maker
- Detroit-Michigan Stove Company
- place made
- United States: Michigan, Detroit
- Physical Description
- iron (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- ID Number
- 1981.0954.01
- accession number
- 1981.0954
- catalog number
- 1981.0954.01
- Credit Line
- Sherrill S. and Stephen V. N. Yates
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- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Family & Social Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Artifact Walls exhibit
- Exhibition
- Artifact Walls
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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