Object Details
- Description
- Two-pot vegetable steamer or cooker. The upper pot has a low-domed, molded cover with arched strap handle, two horizontal strap handles at sides, and is double-walled with a perforated liner, while the lower pot has a closed-end, conical handle reinforced where it is soldered to the pot, a horizontal assist or carrying handle on the opposite side, and a flat copper bottom. Both pots are wire-rimmed with vertical folded seams. Lower pot is stamped inside bottom in raised san serif letters "KREAMER" inside an oval, and has an attached, bead-bordered brass tag on one side that reads "WOODWARD & LOTHROP / WASHINGTON D.C."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1898
- Physical Description
- iron (overall material)
- tin (lid material)
- iron wire (rims material)
- copper (lower pot bottom material)
- brass (tag material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11 7/8 in x 14 5/8 in x 9 in; 30.1625 cm x 37.1475 cm x 22.86 cm
- Object Name
- cooker, steam
