One of a set of three toiletry tools with mother-of-pearl handles and steel shanks. Most of tool length comprises a stout file. Tip extends to a shart point for cleaning fingernails. Shell handle widens and flattens out to a rounded terminal.
Handmade rectangular grater crudely fashioned with tinned sheet iron and having 14 staggered slits of 1.25" width and raised edges for cutting. All four edges are folded to back, but the two long sides are rolled over wire to stiffen length of tool.
Crudely fashioned tin tool has wear and imperfections at blades and back corners. Abrasions and corrosion scattered overall. Peeling paint or corrosion.
Photograph- Building #1 of Lancaster County Almshouse from J. J. Mombert's "Authentic History of Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania". See LCHS Journal Vol. 102, issue 2/3, page 83.
Photograph- Building #1 of Lancaster County Almshouse from J. J. Mombert's "Authentic History of Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania". See LCHS Journal Vol. 102, issue 2/3, page 83.
Description
Building #1 of Lancaster County Almshouse from J. J. Mombert's "Authentic History of Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania". See LCHS Journal Vol. 102, issue 2/3, page 83.
Photograph- Building #2 of Lancaster County Almshouse from J. J. Mombert's "Authentic History of Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania". See LCHS Journal Vol. 102, issue 2/3, page 90.
Photograph- Building #2 of Lancaster County Almshouse from J. J. Mombert's "Authentic History of Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania". See LCHS Journal Vol. 102, issue 2/3, page 90.
Description
Building #2 of Lancaster County Almshouse from J. J. Mombert's "Authentic History of Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania". See LCHS Journal Vol. 102, issue 2/3, page 90.
Negative of Columbia Bridge Burning from "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper" Picture includes troups, horse gathering and the bridge between Wrightsville and Columbia on fire.
