Tin Container for Portable Stove
United States cookware
1890s8 1/4 x 6 x 5 in. (21 x 15 x 13 cm)
Florence Stove Co. Primary
Object Type:
cookware
Creation Places:
North America, United States, Illinois
Medium and Support:
tin
Credit Line:
Gift of Donald and Miriam MacMillan
Accession Number:
1967.164.b
A small portable stove made by the Florence Stove Company: with an iron burner mounted on a tin fuel canister, the entire assembly was carried in a lightweight tin container. Associated with the North Pole Expedition. Peary designed changes and Henson is recorded as "making" these stoves - perhaps adapting the basic stove by making the container and/or fuel chamber. An identical stove at Canadian Museum of Civilization is also associated with North Pole Expedition.
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