Callie Smet calls New Berlin, Wisconsin home. She aims to complete her BS in Criminal Justice with a History minor at the University of Wisconsin – Platteville in May 2024. Interpretation and law enforcement at state and national levels remain key passions.
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OBJECT HISTORY: Sanitary Metal Kitchen Cabinet
The Sanitary Metal Kitchen Cabinet, also known as the Mound City Kitchen Safe, fits into the history of American cookery, American kitchens, and American consumerism. Originally owned by members of the Shepard and Greene families of Pleasant Ridge, Wisconsin, this exceptional kitchen appliance reveals what it meant to be middle-class Black consumers in rural America at the turn of the twentieth century.