Wooden shower chamber with open sides [canvas missing] and four ovoid feet. Tin lined base has a drain hole with a cork plug. Pulleys attached to top raise and lower a pierced tin ceiling liner. Basin that held water is missing.
shower baths
wood (plant material)
tin (metal)
Stall, Shower
42.1
758
L.V. Badger (Manufacturer)
Boston, MA
88 x 25 1/4 x 25 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Museum Purchase
2010.1.1
1843 (Patent date)
Possibly Dover (Strafford county, New Hampshire)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
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