Dish Pan

Object ID: 2000.47.4790 ​

This dish pan was hand made in 1913 by Tom Lambert for his wife, Gertie, out of a Kerosene can cut in two. They first used it on Cortez Island and later in Paradise Valley during the 1930's and 1940's. Dishes were washed in one side and rinsed in the other. 
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Tom Lambert, Cortez Island. (ID 2000.30.1)
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The Lambert's Cortez home. (ID 2000.30.2)
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Lambert's Goat Ranch at Paradise Valley, 1930. (ID 1987.30.108)
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