What Is It? Social Studies, History, Information Technology
Change, Ways of life - Mail-order catalogues on this site -
Photographs of artifacts from Eaton's catalogues (links -
Teacher hints (below) - Ask students to select an object from
the list of photographs below. - By using the historical
catalogue pages from this site, and with the help of the
indexes, students must find out it was used, what it was used
for, and what it cost. - Foot warmer - Shoe and harness repair
kit - Pair of sad iron handles and bases - Meat grinder - Foot-
powered sewing machine - Electric toaster - Electric washing
machine. Foot warmer, ca ? On a cold winter's night in a home
heated by a a stoneware foot warmer filled with hot water would
have been a welcome to a bed. Foot warmers were also used in
carriages and in early didn't have heaters. Shoe and harness
repair kit, ca 1900 This "Combination Family Cobbler/Tinker &
contained the tools required to perform repairs to shoes and
horse in this kit were children- and adult-sized l