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- Chimney Hook -
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Chimney Hook
- Ember Tongs - Before matches were widely available, smokers used tongs like this one to light their pipes. The flattened ends of the scissor-like tongs let a person pick up an ember and hold it steady. Blacksmiths made the tongs from durable wrought iron that withstood the heat of the fire.
- Collections - Artifact
Ember Tongs
Before matches were widely available, smokers used tongs like this one to light their pipes. The flattened ends of the scissor-like tongs let a person pick up an ember and hold it steady. Blacksmiths made the tongs from durable wrought iron that withstood the heat of the fire.
- Pipe Tongs, 1800-1900 - Before matches were widely available, smokers used tongs like this one to light their pipes. Closing the handles extended the flattened ends of the tongs toward the fire and helped them pick up an ember and hold it steady. Blacksmiths made the tongs from durable wrought iron that withstood the heat of the fire.
- 1800-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Pipe Tongs, 1800-1900
Before matches were widely available, smokers used tongs like this one to light their pipes. Closing the handles extended the flattened ends of the tongs toward the fire and helped them pick up an ember and hold it steady. Blacksmiths made the tongs from durable wrought iron that withstood the heat of the fire.
- Coal Tongs -
- Collections - Artifact
Coal Tongs
- Wrought Iron Andirons -
- Collections - Artifact
Wrought Iron Andirons
- Ember Tongs, 1790-1830 -
- 1790-1830
- Collections - Artifact
Ember Tongs, 1790-1830
- Coal Tongs - Before matches were widely available, smokers used tongs like this one to light their pipes. The flattened ends of the scissor-like tongs let a person pick up an ember and hold it steady. Blacksmiths made the tongs from durable wrought iron that withstood the heat of the fire.
- Collections - Artifact
Coal Tongs
Before matches were widely available, smokers used tongs like this one to light their pipes. The flattened ends of the scissor-like tongs let a person pick up an ember and hold it steady. Blacksmiths made the tongs from durable wrought iron that withstood the heat of the fire.
- Open Hearth Building at Ford Rouge Plant, 1927 - A worker shovels debris in the Ford Rouge Plant's open-hearth building, where ten monstrous furnaces worked day and night to produce steel for plant operations. Suspended behind him is the giant hook of a 125-ton crane. Its job was to transport massive ladles (one is partially visible, left) of molten metal through the steelmaking process.
- July 12, 1929
- Collections - Artifact
Open Hearth Building at Ford Rouge Plant, 1927
A worker shovels debris in the Ford Rouge Plant's open-hearth building, where ten monstrous furnaces worked day and night to produce steel for plant operations. Suspended behind him is the giant hook of a 125-ton crane. Its job was to transport massive ladles (one is partially visible, left) of molten metal through the steelmaking process.
- Pipe Tongs, 1800-1900 - Before matches were widely available, smokers used tongs like this one to light their pipes. Closing the handles extended the flattened ends of the tongs toward the fire and helped them pick up an ember and hold it steady. Blacksmiths made the tongs from durable wrought iron that withstood the heat of the fire.
- 1800-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Pipe Tongs, 1800-1900
Before matches were widely available, smokers used tongs like this one to light their pipes. Closing the handles extended the flattened ends of the tongs toward the fire and helped them pick up an ember and hold it steady. Blacksmiths made the tongs from durable wrought iron that withstood the heat of the fire.
- Coal Tongs -
- Collections - Artifact
Coal Tongs