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Maker(s):Ford Johnson & Co.
Culture:American
Title:Cradle
Type:Furniture
Materials:wood: hickory
Place Made:North America; United States; Indiana; Johnson City
Measurements:Length 44 in. Width 22 1/2 in. Height 29 in. Wheels 9 3/4 in.
Accession Number:  MH SK B.10.A.13.2
Credit Line:Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, Mount Holyoke College
Museum Collection:  The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College

Label Text:
SKINNER CATALOGUE: A basket cradle in hickory, hemispheroid in shape, consisting of a basket made of wide spaced thin slats, slung in a curved frame, flat on the bottom, and with two wheels at one end to make it easy to move around. Sometime painted yellow on a white undercoating, but now scraped clean.
Patended by Abner Woodward of Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, October 17, 1876, no. 183 357, and manufactured by Ford (or Lord) Johnson & Co., Johnson City, Indiana. Length 44" Width 22 1/2" Height 29" Wheels 9 3/4" Cat. 8/30/1936

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furniture

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