Mortar and pestle. Large, bowl-shaped mortar with a small, open, triangular spout at rim, made of Wedgwood-style "biscuit porcelain" bat-shaped glass pestle with a small, clubbed end and a wider, flared end for grinding. Mortar includes manufacturer markings:"Warrantied--W. M. A. S.--Acid Proof." Ceramicist Josiah Wedgwood created a new kind of ...
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Mortar and pestle. Bowl-shaped porcelain mortar with a small, open, triangular spout at rim. Cylindrical porcelain pestle with slim clubbed end at handle and thicker clubbed end at grinding end. Includes manufacturer markings:"4 in." A mortar is a bowl-shaped receptacle and a pestle is a blunt, roughly cylindrical implement. Together they are u...
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
A manual Portable Adding Machine, style 8.08.01, The keyboard, which uses the atypical square keys, features a bulletin holder along the left side, one alphabetic column, and six numeric columns
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University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
"Aunt Abbie Parks (Jennie's mother)" is written on the bottom of the photograph. "Aunt Abbie Sampson Parks," "half sister (?) of Augusta Lydia Sampson," and "Mother of Jennie + Helen Parks" are written on the back of the photograph.
Creator:
Moulton, J.C., 1824-1914
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Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
