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| Handled Iron Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Handled Iron Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Iron which was heated on the stove and has handle which can be swapped out. | |||
| Handleless Iron Bar Harbor Historical Society |
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|  Handleless Iron Bar Harbor Historical Society Description: Iron without a handle so that removable handles could be swapped off with others being heated on the stove. | |||
| Coleman's Instant-Lite Model 4A gas iron Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Coleman's Instant-Lite Model 4A gas iron Tremont Historical Society Description: Coleman's Instant-Lite Model 4A gas iron with a "cool blue" handle. Turquoise body and handle, with steel-colored bottom and gas tank. It was made between 1929 and 1948 in blue, turquoise, green, tan, and black enamel. Some other colors were not sold in the United States. Red and ivory-colored irons were sold only in Canada and speckled blue irons only in Australia. Coleman made over 30 different models of irons. The blue Model 4A is the one most often found today. The pump was used to build up pressure in the fuel tank. Then a match was lit underneath the iron to make a flame inside the iron. Fuel irons were an improvement over earlier irons that had to be heated on the stove or heated by charcoal. Fuel irons were lighter in weight and their temperature more even, but they made ironing a potentially dangerous job. Gasoline, alcohol, carbide-acetylene, kerosene, and other fuels could cause a fire or explode. Some irons were heated by natural gas from a gaslight or other source in the house. \Donated by Beth Goodwin Reed, Manset ME [show more] | ||||
| Wooden laundry agitator stick Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Wooden laundry agitator stick Tremont Historical Society Description: Wooden forked stick used for stirring or agitating laundry in a laundry bucket. | |||
| Tea Towel Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Tea Towel Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Tea towel initialed "JAB"; Could this be related to Object ID 009.074.016 (large pillowcase with "Julian Ann S. Babson" stamped on it? MF- 2/19/19 | ||||
| Drying rack for doll clothes Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Drying rack for doll clothes Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Drying rack for doll clothes given to Edna Rumill by her father, Capt. Edwin Rumill | ||||
| Sad Iron Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Sad Iron Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Sad iron: Removable lifter with round wood handle and three irons. Marked "Asbestos Sad Iron" Patent: May 22nd, 1900 on lifter | ||||
| Doll Laundry Bag Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
|  Doll Laundry Bag Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Cotton laundry bag made into doll with embroidered face and flowery fabric feet, pockets and head scarf. Found in apartment over old Seal Harbor store. | |||||
| Copper wash basin Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Coal Iron Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
|  Coal Iron Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Wooden handle. Space for coal in back. Chimney allows exit for smoke. Very heavy. Marks unreadable. | |||||
| Flatiron Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Flatiron Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Flat iron with tin hand guard. Wooden handle. Marked, “Jan 22, 1870”. | ||||
| Sad Iron Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Sad Iron Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Small ridged iron. Marked, “est. 1876. M. Mahony, Troy, NY.” | ||||
| Hall’s Little Washer, Sept. 7, 1869 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Hall’s Little Washer, Sept. 7, 1869 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Handle turns grooved wringer. Flat rollers feed fabric through. Springs keep roller tight. Marked, “Manufactured Makfield, Casco, ME. Hall’s Little Washer, Sept. 7, 1869”. . | ||||
| Whisk Broom Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
|  Whisk Broom Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Whisk broom folded over braided ring with decorative pieces drawn through top; red and blue stitching. Found in apartment over old store in Seal Harbor. | |||||
| Steam Iron Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Steam Iron Tremont Historical Society Description: Coleman blue enamel steam iron with water reservoir and wooden handle. | ||||
| Soap Saver Dispenser Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Soap Saver Dispenser Tremont Historical Society Description: Household tool for saving scraps of soap to be used for dish washing or laundry. | ||||
| Soap Saver Dispenser Tremont Historical Society |
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|  Soap Saver Dispenser Tremont Historical Society Description: Household tool for saving scraps of soap to be used for dish washing or laundry. | ||||
| Bars of laundry soap Tremont Historical Society |
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| Flat iron with wooden handle Islesford Historical Society |
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| Flat iron with black plastic handle Islesford Historical Society |
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| Wash Board Islesford Historical Society |
| Wash Board Islesford Historical Society Description: Used for scrubbing clothes when they were being washed by hand. This may have come from Woodlawn. | |||||
| Laundry Tongs Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Laundry Tongs Great Harbor Maritime Museum | |||
| Curtain Stretchers, Wooden Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Curtain Stretchers, Wooden Great Harbor Maritime Museum | |||
| Wringer Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Wringer Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
