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  • Flour Bins


    The Hoosier cabinet included, variously, an upper section with bins for flour, sugar, and other dry staples. The flour bin could hold 50 pounds and had a built-in sifter in the base. A wooden or enamel pullout work surface doubled as a cutting board.... Read More »

  • Lamp Chimneys


    Used for centuries as a primary source of light, candles emit a warmth and glow that enchants and soothes. Styles have graduated from the Charles II with a clustered or fluted column on a square or polygonal stepped base. In 1690 the Huguenot silvers... Read More »

  • Aladdin Table Lamps


    Victor Johnson founded the Mantle Lamp Company of America in Chicago in 1908 and imported the Practicus incandescent burner from Germany. He obtained the Aladdin trademark in 1908 and sold the first model of the American-made Aladdin lamp in 1909. In... Read More »

  • Chair Cane


    Cane that is woven for seating comes from rattans, which are jungle creepers. There are approximately 1600 species in 14 genera, however only two genera are commonly used as seating cane the Calamus and Daemonoropos. These plants are indigenous to t... Read More »

  • Chair Parts


    Splint is obtained from ash, hickory and rattan. Ash splints are cut to a uniform width while hickory splints are generally slightly varied. The outer bark of the rattan palm is stripped for use as cane, and the core is split into round and flat stri... Read More »

  • Hoosier Hinges


    The Hoosier Manufacturing Company, founded in 1898, had built more than two million cabinets by 1920. Since there were only about 20 million households in the United States in 1921, nearly 10% had a kitchen cabinet with the name Hoosier on it.... Read More »

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