Name/Title
ThermometerEntry/Object ID
022.3.1.1Description
Decorative, framed, mercury thermometer, in Fahrenheit. To be hung indoors.
On top Painted black, on the plastic cover is a silhouette of a tree and a man cooking at a camp fire. Bottom far right is the following:
FRANCIS FOURNIER
Building - Remodeling
Plumbing
PHONE 557 - PERTH, ONT.
Underneath the plastic is a framed colour picture of a cottage on a lake with trees in the background and a man in a canoe.
On the far right is a thermometer, with a vile of red mercury, gold plate with numbers in black. First column from top to bottom 120 degrees to minus 20 degrees. In between 40 and 20 degrees it say freezing; The thermometer is in the middle; second column from top to bottom 110 degrees to minus 10 degrees. At the bottom, Made in USA.Made/Created
Date made
circa 1940Time Period
20th Century, Sometime between 1940 and 1950'sDimensions
Height
10.4 cmWidth
0.8 cmLength
25 cm