Bin, Storage
Grain storage bin with labeled compartments, Church Family, Mount Lebanon, NY
Description
Dovetailed chest with maple front, ends, bottom and top (two lids and hinge cleat). Three partitions and back are pine. Partitions have a maple trim strip attached to their tops. Bin on heavy wheels, iron in front, wood at rear. Painted red and varnished over outside. Underside of lids painted off-white.
Notes
Used to store rye flour and three types or components of wheat flour: fine, coarse, and the middlings. Can be seen in a HABS photograph of a room in the North Family Wash House; see blog post on this piece: https://shakerml.wordpress.com/2018/09/26/rye-and-middlings/
New York Mount Lebanon North Family
