Item Name	Highchair	Image
Owner(s)	Snyder, Louisa
Category	Artifacts
Year	Early: 1840 - Late: 1860
Description	Hand and machine-made, painted highchair owned by Louisa Schneider Troxel. It is a child's Windsor highchair in the Sheraton style, painted dark green with freehand painted embellishments in yellow. The striping and freehand decoration has been applied in and around incised lines and ring turnings on legs, spindles and posts. The crest rail is striped and has some freehand floral decoration. Both the back and the front legs are well splayed for balance. The post and three spindles support the crest rail. The entire chair - seat, posts, rails, spindles, legs and rungs - uses dowel construction.
Provenance	Louisa (Schneider) Troxel’s highchair.
Collection	Joseph Schneider Haus Museum Contact : 466 Queen St. S. Kitchener 519-742-7752 www.region.waterloo.on.ca
Accession No.	1981.005.001

Fraktur design based on Family Register by Jacob Shoemacher in Joseph Schneider Bible, 1821.