Electric Flatiron
date: label: date made
content: ca 1955
name: label: maker
content: Knapp-Monarch Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Chrome-plated electric flatiron, with steam function. Triangular-shaped soleplate, curved, streamlined body. Horizontal handle, curved and molded black bakelite. Handle and upper portion of body are one piece of molded black bakelite, which lifts (red “OPEN” button) to reveal a circular hole in metal body, to pour water into lower cavity and produce steam. Fabric gauge is on top of body, molded plastic knob, burgandy. Attached metal plate on upper plastic body is printed: “KNAPP-MONARCH/STEAM KING/STEAM-R-DR/IIRON” with “KM” trademark. Power cord attaches to side of body, fabric cord, metal coil, black and gold cord, with black plastic plug, two-pronged. Extended heel rest, stamped/engraved: "V-115 A.C. ONLY W.1000/CAT.NO. 20-521A/2-55/KNAPP MONARCH CO.ST.LOUIS.U.S.A.”. Underside of soleplate has three openings for steam.
label: Description
content: This iron is from the Hoover Company Sample collection, North Canton, Ohio, including samples by Knapp-Monarch Company, St. Louis (Missouri), which was bought by Hoover in 1969. It is noted: “Hoover Company Collection tag Sample 25383/Rec’d. Apr. 73/Model 20521A”; Knapp-Monarch tag, “MADE BY KM IN FEB. 1955”
label: Description
content: Maker is the Knapp-Monarch Company, St. Louis, Missouri, founded in 1925 as A.S. Knapp and Company, not as a manufacturer, but to sell products. The company merged with manufacturer Monarch Company of Webster City, Iowa, in 1928. In 1969 the company was acquired by the Hoover Company.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Hoover Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0835.06
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0835.06
label: accession number
content: 1991.0835
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flatiron
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cloth (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 5/8 in x 5 in x 9 3/8 in; 14.2875 cm x 12.7 cm x 23.8125 cm