White Granite Plate · Learning from Cooper Street · Online Exhibits at Rutgers University-Camden

Title: White Granite Plate
Description: White granite became a popular choice for dinnerware in the mid-nineteenth century because it had the appearance of porcelain but was less expensive and more durable. Pieces were often decorated with natural motifs.
Contributor: Ashley Angelucci (Graduate Student, American Material Culture, Spring 2018); photograph by Jacob Lechner.
Creator: John Maddock & Sons.
Date: c. 1855; photograph, July 2018
Format: White granite dinner plate
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.
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