Ceramic lusterware creamer from the excavation of a privy at 1304 Howard/LaSalle Street
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Much of the pottery from the 1304 Howard/LaSalle privy consisted of undecorated ironstone wares: plates, saucers, mugs, platters, bowls, serving dishes, and chamber pots. Occasional examples stood out for distinctive decoration, like this lusterware creamer.
This file appears in: Archaeology of the Melpomene Neighborhood at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Excavation of a Privy at 1304 Howard/LaSalle
Archaeology of the Melpomene Neighborhood at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Excavation of a Privy at 1304 Howard/LaSalle
In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, many of the people who lived in the Melpomene neighborhood of Central City rented their residences with some addresses seeing rapid turnover. …