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Object Name |
Barometer |
Caption |
Cottage barometer/thermometer |
Description |
Cottage Barometer - or Storm Glass and Thermometer Combined. From Hoffman & Viele, Norfolk, Nebraska, Furniture, Carpets and Crockery. Belonged to Abby Andrews parents, Simon and Anna Tmey Lauzer. Two glass tubes are set in a crude wooden frame. Readings for the barometer are on a paper backing and Instructions are on the back of the wooden holder. The Lauzers were early pioneers who moved to Hutchinson in 1876 and bought a farm 4 miles east of Hutchinson, where they remained until 1913 when they moved to Minneapolis. Simon Lauzer died in 1934 and Anna Tmey Lauzer in 1935. Abby Lauzer Andrews graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1912 and the University of Minnesota in Home Economics in 1917. She married Walter A. Andrews, Hutchinson, in 1917. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1917 and was a School Superintendent in southern Minnesota towns and in 1944 became director of elementary education in the Minnesota State Dept. of Education. |
Catalog Number |
1987-0294-001 |
Search Terms |
Lauzer Family Andrews Family Hoffman & Viele, Norfolk, Nebraska |
Subjects |
Barometers Thermometers |
People |
Andrews, Abby Lauzer Lauzer, Simon Lauzer, Anna Tmey |