Capital Region of New York State (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine M Gagnon.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This study seeks to understand the full extent of a chamber pot's function, focusing on seven households in Albany, New York, from the late 18th to early 19th centuries. My preliminary study suggests that the composition of the household, including total number of individuals, gender, the presence of enslaved people, and class, helps to explain the stylistic variability in and between the...