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- Gathering Bowl - Life on a farm involves many chores, such as taking care of chickens and gathering eggs. Eggs are important to farm families not only as food -- they can be sold for extra money. This wooden bowl, used to collect eggs in the late 1800s, has flared sides that created additional surface area for eggs to rest on and reduced damage to their fragile shells.
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Gathering Bowl
Life on a farm involves many chores, such as taking care of chickens and gathering eggs. Eggs are important to farm families not only as food -- they can be sold for extra money. This wooden bowl, used to collect eggs in the late 1800s, has flared sides that created additional surface area for eggs to rest on and reduced damage to their fragile shells.
- Gathering Bowl, circa 1880 - Life on a farm involves many chores, such as taking care of chickens and gathering eggs. Eggs are important to farm families not only as food -- they can be sold for extra money. It is believed that this flared, straight-sided wooden bowl was used by children in Finesville, New Jersey, to collect eggs in the 1880s.
- circa 1880
- Collections - Artifact
Gathering Bowl, circa 1880
Life on a farm involves many chores, such as taking care of chickens and gathering eggs. Eggs are important to farm families not only as food -- they can be sold for extra money. It is believed that this flared, straight-sided wooden bowl was used by children in Finesville, New Jersey, to collect eggs in the 1880s.