Hoosier Cabinets
The most cherished item I have from my great-grandmother is her kitchen cabinet. I'm sure you're wondering just how does one keep a kitchen cabinet. Well, built in kitchen cabinets were not always around. What every home maker had to have in her kitchen was a "Hoosier Cabinet". Hoosier cabinets were made by several manufacturers, primarily from the early 1900's through the early 1940's. My grandmother had a Sellers brand hoosier cabinet like the one pictured below in the Sellers Kitchen Furniture book from the late 1920's
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picture of my great-grandmother's cabinet. 
Many companies manufactured free standing kitchen workstations in the early 1900's. The Hoosier Manufacturing Company of New Castle, Indiana was the leading producer of these work-saving conveniences. The fact that Hoosier was the number one manufacturer, and that almost all early cabinets were manufactured in Indiana, the "Hoosier State," led to the HOOSIER CABINET moniker for all kitchen cabinets produced during the era (1905-1941). Major cabinet manufacturers of the day included Boone, Diamond, Hoosier, Ideal, Kitchen Maid, Larkin, McDougall, Napanee, Sellers and Wilson. Thus, nearly a hundred years later, the cabinets made by these companies are today generically and collectively referred to as "Hoosier Cabinets."
Click here to see pictures of a Hoosier Beauty Cabinet
Often times, you will find only the top or bottom of a Hoosier cabinet, and you are left with the problem of
what to do with them. Here's an example of what I did with a top to a Diamond cabinet which had no bottom
cabinet assembly. I had an old table which I stained to match the color of the cabinet top, and set the top
assembly on it to make a nice desk assembly. Great for putting lots of "stuff" in and on. The main reason
I got the top anyway was because of the Diamond sugar jar which was with it. They're very rare.
