copper bucket
Date1890-1930
Inventory Number1996-1-0231
ClassificationBucket
Subject
Maker
American
User
Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
?
1885-present
Cultural Region
Dimensions31.5 x 18.3 cm (12 3/8 x 7 3/16 in.)
Material
DescriptionA cylindrical bucket made of copper.
Signedunsigned
FunctionMay be part of a rain gauge.
ProvenanceIf it is part of a rain gauge, it may have come from the Blue Hill Observatory.
Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
Accessories: black rubber hand-operated squeeze pump
Object number: 1996-1-0148
American
Date: late 19th-mid 20th Century
Accessories: glass stopper with copper wire
Object number: 1997-1-1994
Radium Chemical Company
Date: circa 1900
Accessories: metal needles (2); black rubber tubes with one conical end (5); large black pellets with small metal tubes protruding from the center (2); brown rubber tubes (4); dumbbell-like objects (2); small black caps (4); large black objects with rectangles gouged out of them (2); black cylindrical canisters (4); a metal tube with a screw top; and a bucket of misc. objects
Object number: 1998-1-0115
Henry Hughes & Son, Ltd.
Date: circa 1915
Object number: 5335a
Polaroid Corporation
Date: circa 1973
Accessories: instruction sheet (in object file)
Object number: 2004-1-0216a
Polaroid Corporation
Date: circa 1973
Object number: 2004-1-0216b