Posted on 08/29/2025 6:32:36 PM PDT by kawhill
To properly understand an object, it is necessary not only to understand its function but also to understand the web of values, associations, and historical contexts that surround the object. If we are to put the chamber pot in its proper place in Victorian society, it is necessary to understand the chamber pot’s history and the values that emerge from that history.
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Is that what you put in it? I always thought it was something else.
Potty ping.
I am very attached to my Ben Butler chamber pot from the Museum of the Confederacy in New Orleans.
I have, however, repurposed it. It is now my coin jar.
My maternal grandparents, born in a small town in Pennsylvania in 1872 and in 1880 were familiar with chamberpots and with outhouses.
At least it isn’t about the Trial of the Star Chamber Pot, that was something no one wants to see. 😁
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I certainly would not be happy, though, with getting up in the night and heading outdoors....
Its not so much the dark or the cold so much as the bears.
No. It isn't.
Thundermug.
😄
A few of them linger in the farmhouse of the family homestead.
Missouri...February....
Spoken like one who never had to use an outhouse in the snow, or one in 1100 heat for that matter.
My house in philly i just sold was built pre-indoor toilet. The addition on the back was bottom floor kitchen and second floor bathroom. I have a dresser with a marble top that i set up with a chamber pot while selling the house calling the setup a 1/2 bath.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1009-N-Lawrence-St-Philadelphia-PA-19123/10198824_zpid/
check out the bedroom with the chamber pot on the dresser
No. Not even close.
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