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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Coal tongs
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.

Coal tongs

CultureAmerican
Date19th century
MediumWrought iron
DimensionsOverall: 1 x 19 in. (2.5 x 48.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum collection
Object numberM.0.2048
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, MMH, Old Kitchen
DescriptionU-shaped tongs with flattened ends; spring type.

Exhibition HistoryMyers House/Old Kitchen
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Unknown
No Date
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Charles Branda
ca. 1818
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Gotlieb A. Mayer
1847
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Samuel Williamson
ca. 1810
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Unknown
19th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Charles Branda
ca. 1818
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Andrew Demilt
1805
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
George Baskerville
ca. 1790
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Gotlieb A. Mayer
1835
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Unknown
No Date
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
ca. 1850-1860