Copper Work

During the Great Depression, students at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin hammered out these pieces of copper while working in a craft program to earn part of their room and board. The Northland College Craft Shop chose to use local copper to evoke a sense of northern Wisconsin.

Northland College copper bowl, 1938
Gift of Delores Hendersin (1988.72.1)

Northland College letter opener, 1938
Gift of Delores Hendersin (1988.72.5)