Breakfast Tray with Thermos

The Sandburg’s middle daughter, Janet, placed this tray outside her father’s bedroom door after she had returned from her morning barnyard chores. This breakfast tray carried fruit, cheese, a dark bread, a thermos full of coffee, goat’s milk and honey. If the fruit was an orange, he would eat it peel and all remarking that when he was a little boy an orange was an extravagance so they “…honored the orange by eating all the insides, pulp and peelings.” ( My Connemara, p 95 ). Often working through the night, Mr. Sandburg slept in, staying in his bedroom to eat his breakfast slowly and to exercise, generally for thirty minutes, before joining the family downstairs.
Aluminum, plastic. H 24.5, Dia 8.8 cm
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, CARL 3134

Tray
L 50, W 34.5, H 5.7 cm
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, CARL 1424

Plate
Dia. 25.3, H 2 cm
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, CARL 3270

Fork
L 18.5, W 2.4 cm
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, CARL 3129

Knife
L 21.6, W 1.5 cm
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, CARL 3129