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front Carving Fork
c. 1905
1983.03a.14
This carving fork was made by Lamson & Goodnow Company of Shelburne Falls, the largest cutlery producer in the U.S. in 1860.
front Elm Burl Bowl
1600-1700
IR.F.104
Native Americans made and used this wooden bowl between 1000 and 300 years ago.
front Birch bark bowl
c. 1790
1985.0985
A Penobscot artisan made this small birch bark bowl in the late 18th century.
front Tin-Glazed Earthenware Plate
c. 1760
1989.556
This English-made tin-glazed plate sported exotic Oriental motifs and was considered more valuable and far more stylish than locally produced redware pottery.
front Cruet Set
1815-1825
1990.005.11
Cruet sets like this mahogany stand with blown glass condiment bottles appeared frequently on 19th-century dining tables.
front Ceramic vessel
-1000--350
1999.13.513
Producing ceramic objects like these is a specialized process usually associated with agrarian societies.
front Burl bowl
c. 1790
1888.33.01
Although Americans could purchase dishes and utensils for cooking and eating, many people made their own.
document Gate-leg Table
1680-1720
L.300
This table could accommodate larger numbers of people around it by swinging out elaborately turned "gate legs" to hold up two hinged drop leaves.
Cover "The Pocumtuc Housewife; A Guide to Domestic Cookery"
1906
L99.034
In 1906 a group of women from the Parish Guild in Deerfield, Massachusetts, produced a cookbook patterned after those of the 19th century.
front Plate "Massachusetts State House"
1818-1846
1917.02.02
Elizabeth Allen of Joppa Village, Massachusetts, spent some of the money she earned braiding straw hats to purchase this transfer-print plate of the Massachusetts State House.

 

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