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1900-1996
GUSN-10015
Clear glass cylindrical tube tapering at top and bottom terminating in a bulb and nipple shape filled with mercury; inner glass tube rises up inside wall; paper insert with measures printed in black
thermometers
cookware
glassblowing
glass (material)
mercury
paper (fiber product)
printing (process)
Mercury
Glass
Unidentified Paper
Blown
Transfer Printed
THERMOMETER, MILK
Printed on paper insert: Dairy Thermometer [in writing vertically]/ [measures from] 0 [to] 130 [degrees and markings for] sour milk (60 degrees); sweet milk (50 degrees); freezing (32 degrees)
Unknown
Gift of Elizabeth McAfoose
1995.197
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