Hand-Painted Sugar Box · Learning from Cooper Street · Online Exhibits at Rutgers University-Camden

Title: Hand-Painted Sugar Box
Description: Sugar boxes held sugar to sweeten tea and coffee or to make unpalatable wine drinkable. This nearly-intact pearlware example from the early 1800s has a hand-painted garland design.
Contributor: Lucy Davis (Graduate Student, American Material Culture, Spring 2018); photograph by Jacob Lechner.
Date: c. 1815-1830; photograph July 2018.
Format: Ceramic vessel approximately 4" tall and 5" wide.
Publisher: Rutgers University-Camden
Relation: Affleck, Richard, George Cress, Ingrid Weubber, Rebecca White, Kimberly Morrell, and Thomas Kutys. Phase II and Data-Recovery Archaeological Excavations of the Smith-Maskell Site Cooper Street Development Camden, New Jersey. Archaeological Excavation Report, Burlington: URS Corporation.
Rights: Collection of Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts
Source: Recovered from excavation prior to construction of Rutgers-Camden dormitory at 330 Cooper Street, Camden, N.J.
Subject: 300 BlockSee all items with this value; Alumni House DisplaySee all items with this value; ArchaeologySee all items with this value; ArtifactsSee all items with this value; PearlwareSee all items with this value; SugarSee all items with this value