Souvenir teapot paperweight
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Title |
Souvenir teapot paperweight |
Description |
Souvenir paperweight in the shape of a teapot. The teapot stands on a cylinder with a square base and has red felt on the bottom. |
Subject (tgm) |
Teapots Souvenirs |
Subject Geographic |
Winston-Salem (N.C.) |
Usage Statement |
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Notes |
This teapot is a model of a seven-foot-tall tin teapot fabricated in 1858 by the Mickey brothers, who were tinsmiths in Salem, North Carolina. The teapot was hung outside their shop at the corner of South Main Street and Belews Street to advertise their business. The original 740-gallon teapot still exists, and is currently located at the intersection of South Main Street, Old Salem Road, and Brookstown Avenue. The teapot, a historical Winston-Salem landmark, survived in part because it served another community function. The Mickey brothers' tinshop acted as a marker for the border between the then separate towns of Salem and Winston. First-year students of the all-women's Salem College were not allowed to proceed north on South Main Street without signing out, as neighboring Winston was imagined as harboring temptations threatening the virtue of the young female students. |
Form |
Souvenirs |
Digital Collection |
Lew Powell |
Repository |
North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Host |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Citation |
North Carolina Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
filename |
nccg_ck_1287-3862.TIF |
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