reed hook
notes: label: Description
content: This is a reed hook with a turned wooden handle and a ferrous metal blade with a brass plated ferrous metal cap on the top end of the wooden handle.
label: Description
content: Girls built America. Girls’ work gave other women leisure time, they made industries more profitable, their cheap labor sparked a consumer revolution, and their activism reshaped labor laws. Through their labor and activism, they made workplaces safer for everyone.
label: Description
content: Not all girls had a childhood because they had to work.
label: Description
content: Young girls often worked as spinners or bobbin girls. Spinners ran machines that twisted fiber into yarn. Bobbin girls replaced full bobbins of yarn with empty ones. Often they used tools such as these to perform such tasks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0233.20.03
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0233.20.03
label: accession number
content: 2017.0233
objectType: label: Object Name
content: reed hook
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass plating (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)