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Doremus collection box
Reading Stove Workscirca 1894
Smithsonian's National Postal Museum
Washington, DC, United States
Willard Doremus designed this mailbox with a fluted pedestal and patented it in 1894. The Reading Stove Works of Reading, Pennsylvania, manufactured this particular mailbox, but the Corbin Lock Company of New Britain, Connecticut, also produced Doremus boxes. The Doremus mailbox came in three different sizes: the no. 1 box (750 cubic inches), the no. 2 (1,180 cubic inches), and the no. 3 (2,360 cubic inches). This is an example of the no. 3 model.
Museum ID: 1989.0566.1
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Details
- Title: Doremus collection box
- Creator: Reading Stove Works
- Date Created: circa 1894
- Physical Dimensions: 134.6 x 33 x 20.3 cm
- Subject Keywords: Doremus, mailbox
- External Link: Doremus Collection Box
- Medium: metal; paint (olive green)
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