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Cooking Trunk (355) Item Info
- Title:
- Cooking Trunk (355)
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Description:
- W.H. Bolles Cooking Trunk. In the days before gasoline drums, gasoline was sold in 5-gallon cans, two cans to a wooden box, for use in areas remote from service stations. These boxes were in common use among horse campers for carrying "the kitchen", as it was known. They fitted nicely into canvas pack saddle bags known as an alforjas (Spanish name) which were suspended from the pack saddle by leather loops. I reinforced them with metal strips, added covers and locks and used them when horse camping in Idaho, Wyoming, Washington, and Oregon. The nest of aluminum kettles, cast iron frying pan, break proof egg carton and other items were very useful to horse campers of that bygone era. These items are being sent to the Taylor Ranch for display among their archives.
- Subjects:
- kitchenware artifacts
- Latitude:
- 45.102402
- Longitude:
- -114.850242
- Source Identifier:
- DSC_0196
- Type:
- Image;StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Cooking Trunk (355)", Taylor Wilderness Research Station Archive, University of Idaho Library Digital Initiatives
- Reference Link:
- https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/taylor-archive/items/twrs071_p.html