Churn Style Food Mixer
date: label: date made
content: 1885-1915
notes: label: Description
content: Churn style cream whip, egg beater, or food mixer. Metal housing, rectangular body with rounded bottom, sheet metal. Four curved, bent metal legs. Sheet metal lid, rectangular, embossed with a incurved rectangle and has a folded edge and flange that sits into top of body. The arched, split-center handle on the cover and arched, angled handles on the sides below rim are cast and riveted in place. Exterior metal arm with turned wooden handle (laquered black), rotates interior mixing component, comprised of single horizontal steel rod, with four arms on each side, with thin wires stretched across lengthwise. Side opposite crank is embossed "FRIES" in sans serif letters inside an oval.
label: Description
content: An advertisement for this mixer is discussed in Don Thornton, Beat This: The Eggbeater Chronicles, The Stirring Story of America's Greatest Invention, p. 149, the ad was published in an early catalog of Thos. Mills & Bros. Inc. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and read: "Egg Beater, Batter Mixer and Cream Whip", with an illustration of the mixer, as well as the available sizes ( No. 1-4; 3, 6, 9, 18 pints), and cost $1.85, $2.25, $2.50, or $5.00, depending on the size.
label: Description
content: Maker is George Fries' Sons of Philadelphia, PA.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place used
content: United States: Ohio, Columbus
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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 Mary Eloise Green
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.322793.14
label: accession number
content: 322793
label: catalog number
content: 76-FT-01.1047
label: collector/donor number
content: 414
objectType: label: Object Name
content: container
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tinned sheet iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/4 in x 7 1/2 in x 8 1/8 in; 22.225 cm x 19.05 cm x 20.6375 cm