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- Advertisement for Toastmaster Appliances, "Welcome a Tradition into Your Home," 1959 -
- September 01, 1959
- Collections - Artifact
Advertisement for Toastmaster Appliances, "Welcome a Tradition into Your Home," 1959
- Electric Iron, 1909-1929 -
- 1909-1929
- Collections - Artifact
Electric Iron, 1909-1929
- Trade Card for the Geneva Hand Fluter, 1875-1885 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- 1875-1885
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for the Geneva Hand Fluter, 1875-1885
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- Trade Card for Mrs. Potts' Cold Handle Sad Iron, John Nazro & Company, circa 1880 - In the 1870s, Mary Florence Potts made ironing easier. Conventional single-piece, cast iron flatirons were heated on stoves -- and the handle got hot! Mrs. Potts invented and patented a detachable wood handle that stayed cool and could be switched between her irons. The irons also featured two pointed ends that allowed users to work in either direction. Mrs. Potts' irons remained popular into the 20th century.
- circa 1880
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Mrs. Potts' Cold Handle Sad Iron, John Nazro & Company, circa 1880
In the 1870s, Mary Florence Potts made ironing easier. Conventional single-piece, cast iron flatirons were heated on stoves -- and the handle got hot! Mrs. Potts invented and patented a detachable wood handle that stayed cool and could be switched between her irons. The irons also featured two pointed ends that allowed users to work in either direction. Mrs. Potts' irons remained popular into the 20th century.
- Trade Card for Mrs. Potts' Cold Handle Sad Irons, circa 1883 - In the 1870s, Mary Florence Potts made ironing easier. Conventional single-piece, cast iron flatirons were heated on stoves -- and the handle got hot! Mrs. Potts invented and patented a detachable wood handle that stayed cool and could be switched between her irons. The irons also featured two pointed ends that allowed users to work in either direction. Mrs. Potts' irons remained popular into the 20th century.
- circa 1883
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Mrs. Potts' Cold Handle Sad Irons, circa 1883
In the 1870s, Mary Florence Potts made ironing easier. Conventional single-piece, cast iron flatirons were heated on stoves -- and the handle got hot! Mrs. Potts invented and patented a detachable wood handle that stayed cool and could be switched between her irons. The irons also featured two pointed ends that allowed users to work in either direction. Mrs. Potts' irons remained popular into the 20th century.
- "Monitor" Gasoline Self-Heating Iron, 1903-1915 -
- 1903-1915
- Collections - Artifact
"Monitor" Gasoline Self-Heating Iron, 1903-1915
- Advertising Notice for "Lithgow's Patent Gas-Heating Smoothing Iron," circa 1860 -
- circa 1860
- Collections - Artifact
Advertising Notice for "Lithgow's Patent Gas-Heating Smoothing Iron," circa 1860
- Iron, 1875-1915 -
- 1875-1915
- Collections - Artifact
Iron, 1875-1915
- Flatiron Used by Susana Allen Hunter and Family -
- 1930-1960
- Collections - Artifact
Flatiron Used by Susana Allen Hunter and Family
- Plate from a Fluting Iron, 1878-1885 -
- 1878-1885
- Collections - Artifact
Plate from a Fluting Iron, 1878-1885