Step Stool
Title
Step Stool
Subject
Stool, Step
Description
Hand carved rectangle wooden stool. Four legs on each corner of the stool and connected together on the bottom. Top: Rectangle top, four circles in the corners showing where the legs are inserted. Bottom: Handwritten letter from the blind man who made the stool. The four legs are nailed into the top rectangle piece on the sides. The legs are supported on the short sides with a peg between them and a longer peg runs down the center connecting the two smaller pegs.
Translation of note under stool: “November 17, 48 Offered and executed by an 83-year-old blind man in recognition of having been delivered from slavery and hunger Donet 17 rue of the alouettes a careers-b Beaudart - seine S...and Oise” (address and name)
Translation of note under stool: “November 17, 48 Offered and executed by an 83-year-old blind man in recognition of having been delivered from slavery and hunger Donet 17 rue of the alouettes a careers-b Beaudart - seine S...and Oise” (address and name)
Creator
Tabatha Butler Photographer
Source
1949.3.95
Publisher
Idaho State Historical Society
Date
Circa 1949
Contributor
Idaho State Historical Society
Rights
Idaho State Historical Society
Relation
Still images of step stool in Merci Train collection
Format
Height:7.25" Width: 6.75" Length :12"
Language
French
Type
Still images
Identifier
1949.3.95
Coverage
Idaho State Historical Museum's Storage
- Date Added
- December 15, 2011
- Collection
- Idaho Merci Train Collection
- Item Type
- Still Image
- Citation
- Tabatha Butler Photographer , “Step Stool,” Idaho Merci Train, accessed March 29, 2024, https://idahomercitrain.omeka.net/items/show/63.