Thermometer
- Object Name:
- Thermometer
- Object ID:
- 1947.025.79
- Date:
- 1875-1885
- Description:
- Bath thermometer. Square wooden body with cutouts in sides and hollow core. Cork stopper blocking end. Baluster-form handle, with twine lanyard strung through hole drilled in it. Glass thermometer tube inside with paper slip graduated in degrees, and also with general guideline names: "HOT / WARM / TEPID / TEMP / COOL / COLD BATH / FREEZING". Marked "Dr. FORBES SPECIFICATIONS" and "MADE IN GERMANY" on slip. Paper label, "TILNEY COLLECTION", affixed to side.
- Material:
- Glass
Wood - Dimensions:
- H-0.9 W-1.1 L-9.8 inches
- Provenance:
- Collected by Mary Thompson (Mason) Tilney (1855-1914), mother of the donor, from farm houses near her summer home in Pleasant Valley, NH (near Wolfeboro) between 1895 and 1913.
- Credit Line:
- The Tilney Collection, Gift of Jessie M. Tilney, in Memory of Robert Fingland Tilney and Mary Mason Tilney
- People:
- Tilney, Mary M. (1855-1914), Tilney, Robert F. (1849-1926), Tilney, Jessie Mason (1883-1960)
- Subjects:
- Thermometers
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