• Bellows
    Bellows (with flash)
Bellows
Bellows

Bellows


19th century (Date manufactured/created)
6.75 in W 16.75 in L
Bellows were used to pump air under a fire to increase the fire's intensity. These bellows belonged to Guilford-native and world-renowned poet and essayist Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867). He was so famous that these bellows were exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, and there is a statue of him in New York City's Central Park.
Received from C. F. Bishop in 1902
HW1902.146
Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 1790-1867