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Title Whatnot (corner stand)
Reference 2004.09.01 (whatnot); 2007.04.26 (eyeglasses)
Library 5th of July Resource Center for Self-Determination & Freedom, Weeksville Heritage Center
Date 1860-1869
Description Four shelves in black walnut with turned finials and four turned legs. Each shelf has a coarse fretwork back. On the shelves are: ink well, pen, crochet hooks, glasses, glass case and some books. Copy of 'The North Star' newspaper, Rochester, NY, folded on bottom shelf.
Document Type Object
Theme(s) Family and Daily Life
Keywords household, furniture, culture, leisure, furnishings, stationary
Places Weeksville, Brooklyn, New York
Additional Information 1860s Hunterfly Road House, 1702 Bergen Street. The small bone or ivory crochet hooks were discovered behind the mantelpiece of this house by Tom Paske. Books depicted are 'A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin', by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1899 edition, id ref 2004.13.10) and 'Sesame and Lilies' by John Ruskin (id ref 2006.151.01). This second book is inscribed "To Hattie, from Helen". It consists of a collection of lectures from the 1860s on the roles of men and women in society.
Copyright 5th of July Resource Center for Self-Determination & Freedom, Weeksville Heritage Center