Laundry Sprinkler
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: Metal containers such as these were commonly used in the late 19th and early 20th by Chinese immigrants in the laundry business. A water and starch mix were sprinkled onto clothes for ironing.
label: Description
content: Chinese immigration to the United States was driven by the need for cheap labor during the mining and railroad boom of the 1850s. Chinese soon moved into other industries such as agriculture and laundry services.
place: label: Place Made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Laundry
label: Subject
content: Chinese
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content: Home and Community Life: Occupations
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Work
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content: Artifact Walls exhibit
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CL.311497.01
label: catalog number
content: 311497.01
label: accession number
content: 311497
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sprinkler, laundry
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 8 5/8 in x 4 in; 11.43 cm x 21.9075 cm x 10.16 cm