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The Chamber Pot: An Object Full of Contradictions
friendsofdalnavert.ca ^ | They don't list it as I can find | Sean Hetherington

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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TOPICS: History; Reference
KEYWORDS: 14march2023; artifacts; chamber; chamberpot; indoorouthouse; object; pot; seanhetherington; thundermugs; victorianera; yourmom

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1 posted on 08/29/2025 6:32:36 PM PDT by kawhill
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To: kawhill

Is that what you put in it? I always thought it was something else.


2 posted on 08/29/2025 6:41:10 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: SunkenCiv

Potty ping.


3 posted on 08/29/2025 6:46:11 PM PDT by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: kawhill

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.


4 posted on 08/29/2025 6:48:36 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: kawhill

My maternal grandparents, born in a small town in Pennsylvania in 1872 and in 1880 were familiar with chamberpots and with outhouses.


5 posted on 08/29/2025 6:58:41 PM PDT by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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To: JennysCool

At least it isn’t about the Trial of the Star Chamber Pot, that was something no one wants to see. 😁


6 posted on 08/29/2025 7:11:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Bigg Red
It's debatable whether having brought the outhouse, as we did, into the house (with the advent of the flush toilet) was, in fact, a sign of societal progress, or, in fact, a retardation.
7 posted on 08/29/2025 7:13:11 PM PDT by 4Runner ("I gotta join a union just to get a job loafin'?" " Sure ya do!" --Abbott & Costello)
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To: 4Runner

🤔


8 posted on 08/29/2025 7:24:14 PM PDT by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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To: 4Runner

I certainly would not be happy, though, with getting up in the night and heading outdoors....


9 posted on 08/29/2025 7:26:16 PM PDT by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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To: Bigg Red

Its not so much the dark or the cold so much as the bears.


10 posted on 08/29/2025 7:29:04 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hivemind liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives select servants.)
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To: 4Runner
It's debatable whether having brought the outhouse, as we did, into the house (with the advent of the flush toilet) was, in fact, a sign of societal progress, or, in fact, a retardation.

No. It isn't.

11 posted on 08/29/2025 7:29:33 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: kawhill

Thundermug.


12 posted on 08/29/2025 7:35:55 PM PDT by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: gnarledmaw

😄


13 posted on 08/29/2025 7:41:45 PM PDT by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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To: kawhill

A few of them linger in the farmhouse of the family homestead.


14 posted on 08/29/2025 7:46:22 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Bigg Red

Missouri...February....


15 posted on 08/29/2025 9:19:43 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
You kind of need to lower courts to take the first crack at those cases to develop the factual record, etc..

Spoken like one who never had to use an outhouse in the snow, or one in 1100 heat for that matter.

16 posted on 08/29/2025 9:48:43 PM PDT by itsahoot (Many Republicans are secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Dan Bongino.)
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To: kawhill

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


17 posted on 08/29/2025 10:13:42 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: 4Runner

No. Not even close.


18 posted on 08/30/2025 3:03:29 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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