COLLECTION NAME:
Eloise Kruger Miniature Collection
Record
Creator:
Hardy, Carol ;Antiques in Miniature
Title:
Maple Hoosier Cabinet
Collection Title:
Eloise Kruger Miniature Collection
Category:
Storage and display furniture
Description:
Maple kitchen cabinet, rectangular top with serpentine backboard, over four small spice drawers, long lift-drawer to store rolling pin and two blind doors; above six cup hooks and candle shelf; base with large rectangular top over two pull-out flour boards, two shallow drawers and to 'possum belly' bins; all working drawers and doors with brass knobs and pulls; on turned tapering legs with flat stretchers.
Materials:
maple; brass
Measurements:
5 1/4"h x 4"w x 2"d
Date.Object Created:
1978
Date.Earliest:
1905
Date.Latest:
1929
Subject:
Miniature furniture
Subject.AAT:
case furniture
Subject.AAT.Type:
cabinets
Subject.AAT.Subtype:
Hoosier cabinets
Subject.Persons:
Hardy, Carol ;Kruger, Eloise
Subject.Entities:
Antiques in Miniature
Style/Period:
Edwardian ;American Vernacular
Accession Number:
1997.66
Owner:
University of Nebraska Foundation
Collection Information:
Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193
How Acquired:
Gift of the Eloise Kruger Charitable Trust
Date.Object Acquired:
1997
Status:
Permanent Collection
Image.Date:
2006
Image.Publisher:
Eloise Kruger Collection
Eloise Kruger Miniature Collection
