CLOTHESLINE
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- INDOOR CLOTHESLINE
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Materials
- WOOD, STEEL
- Catalogue Number
- P19970014008
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- INDOOR CLOTHESLINE
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Materials
- WOOD, STEEL
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Length
- 11.4
- Width
- 2.8
- Description
- GREEN ROUND STEEL SPOOL CANISTER WITH TWO BRACKETS WITH STEEL SCREWS TO ATTACH TO WALL. FRONT HAS HOLE WHERE CREAM COLORED COTTON STRING IS PULLED FROM CASE. ONE SIDE HAS STEEL CRANK WITH BLACK WOODEN HANDLE ON ONE END AND THE OTHER END IS A ROD THAT GOES THROUGH BODY OF CANISTER TO OTHER SIDE WHERE IT IS HELD BY A STEEL LATCH. THE STRING WINDS AROUND THE ROD ON THE INSIDE. SURFACE IS SLIGHTLY WORN AND CHIPPED.
- Subjects
- MAINTENANCE T&E
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- History
- ITEM BELONGED TO DONOR'S MOTHER-IN-LAW, MARIANNE E, KIMBER, WHO PURCHASED THE CLOTHESLINE IN THE EARLY 1930'S FOR USE IN THE BATHROOM. IN THE LAST 40 YEARS LINE HAS BEEN USED BY DONOR AND HER HUSBAND IN THEIR DARKROOM. DONORS HAVE LIVED IN LETHBRIDGE AREA FOR APPROX. 65 YEARS.
- Catalogue Number
- P19970014008
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-02
- Collection
- Museum
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