A segmented miner’s lunch pail from the nineteenth century was, above all, practical, with stacking compartments for stews, pie, cobbler, as well as a cup on top for coffee, which was heated over a candle. The Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum received NEH funding for its permanent exhibit “Digging In.”
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HUMANITIES, September/October 2009, Volume 30, Number 5
![A cylindrical can with a long handle](/sites/default/files/styles/1000x1000_square/public/2018-07/2009_5-Sept-Oct_Curio_03.jpg?h=9c86ceb9&itok=QffSEYrP)
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Courtesy Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum