This leather fire bucket with the name "Clap" painted on the outside is from the Blair House Collection. The bucket possibly descended from Elizabeth Quincy Clapp, the great grandmother of Gist Blair. In the 19th century these buckets were filled with wet sand to put out small fires. These buckets were the predecessors to the fire extinguisher.

Fire buckets were common in American and British households at the time and this one was likely used by the Blair family, who lived in Blair House. Blair House is located across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House and has been used as the president's guest house since the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. Visiting diplomats and dignitaries stay at Blair House while on official visits with the White House and is historically where the president-elect and first family reside prior to taking the oath of office.