Toilet and Personal Hygiene

Many of the items found in this category were manufactured to meet the needs of the consumer of the first half of the nineteenth century and are no longer in use today.  There is no internationally agreed-to nomenclature for shapes; this exhibition uses primarily the terms used by David and Linda Arman and by Elloise Baker Larsen in their works dedicated to American Historical Staffordshire.


Wash Bowl and Pitcher
Almshouse, Boston
Wash Bowl and Pitcher
Almshouse, New York
Wash Bowl
America and Independence #12 (Mansion, small boat with flag in foreground)
Foot Bath
Boston State House
Ladies' Coach Pot
Boston State House
Wash Bowl
Boston State House
Chamber Pot
Boston State House
Spittoon
Boston State House
Wash Bowl and Pitcher
Capitol, Washington
Pitcher
City Hall, New York
Wash Bowl and Pitcher
Erie Canal, View of the Aqueduct Bridge at Little Falls
Wash Bowl and Pitcher
Esplanade and Castle Garden, New York
Wash Bowl and Pitcher
Famous Naval Heroes
Wash Bowl
La Fayette at Franklin's Tomb
Chamber Pot
La Fayette at Franklin's Tomb
Wash Bowl and Pitcher
La Fayette at Franklin's Tomb
Pitcher
La Fayette at Franklin's Tomb
Soap Dish
La Fayette at Washington's Tomb
Chamber Pot Lid
Landing of Gen. La Fayette at Castle Garden New York 16 August 1824
Soap Dish
Landing of Gen. Lafayette at Castle Garden, New York, 16 August 1824
Wash Bowl
Lawrence Mansion, Boston (so-called)
Pitcher
Upper Ferry Bridge over the River Schuylkill
Wash Bowl
Upper Ferry Bridge over the River Schuylkill
Bowl
Wadsworth Tower
Washbowl and Pitcher
X-La Fayette at Franklin's Tomb