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- Water Cooler - At a time when many buildings lacked running water, people filled insulated metal, tin, stoneware, or ceramic water coolers with fresh cold water to drink. These coolers, placed in homes, offices, stores, and schools, provided quick refreshment on a hot day with the turn of the spigot.
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Water Cooler
At a time when many buildings lacked running water, people filled insulated metal, tin, stoneware, or ceramic water coolers with fresh cold water to drink. These coolers, placed in homes, offices, stores, and schools, provided quick refreshment on a hot day with the turn of the spigot.
- Stoneware Water Cooler, 1825-1875 - This water cooler was made of a durable, leak-proof pottery called stoneware, shaped on a potter's wheel. The orange-peel-like outer glaze was created when the potter threw handfuls of common rock salt into a white-hot kiln during the piece's firing. Salt-glazed stoneware pieces were decorated with an amazing array of designs, including the bird and hearts on this piece.
- 1825-1875
- Collections - Artifact
Stoneware Water Cooler, 1825-1875
This water cooler was made of a durable, leak-proof pottery called stoneware, shaped on a potter's wheel. The orange-peel-like outer glaze was created when the potter threw handfuls of common rock salt into a white-hot kiln during the piece's firing. Salt-glazed stoneware pieces were decorated with an amazing array of designs, including the bird and hearts on this piece.