Kamyria Gray-Dillard lives in Platteville, Wisconsin. She completed her BA in Political Science with minors in International Studies and French in May of 2023. She enjoys writing history and aims to work in the social services field.
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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.