- On View
- Making a Way Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Making a Way Out of No Way
- Designed by
- Boyd, Henry, American, 1802 - 1886
- Manufactured by
- Boyd Manufacturing Company, American, ca. 1830 - 1870
- Date
- ca. 1840
- Medium
- wood
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 79 × 57 × 84 in., 140 lb. (200.7 × 144.8 × 213.4 cm, 63.5 kg)
- Description
- A wooden four poster bed frame with head board and foot board. The side rails screw into the frame providing greater strength and limited hiding places for vermin. This type of frame is known as the "Boyd Bedstead."
- Place made
- Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Slavery and Freedom Objects
- Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design
- Type
- beds (furniture)
- Topic
- Black Enterprise
- Business
- Craftsmanship
- Design
- Emancipation
- Freedom
- Furniture design
- Men
- Race discrimination
- Slavery
- Technology
- U.S. History, 1815-1861
- U.S. History, 1865-1921
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2012.113.1a-m
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public Domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.