Threading Die and Holder
notes: label: Description
content: An extensive collection of late-nineeteenth-century woodworking tools includes this threading die in a holder. A threading die is a device that cuts threads on objects like screws or bolts so that they will securely remain in another object. The holder holds the die in place so that the die can be used on a lathe. This particular die cuts twenty threads per inch and is made of nickel-plated steel.
label: Description
content: All the woodworking tools in this collection were used by Carl M. Hostrup (who also made several of his own tools) and donated in his memory through his sons, Christian Hostrup and Clarence Hostrup. Carl M. Hostrup--full name Carl Marius Christian Christensen Hostrup--was born in Denmark in 1870 but, as a young man, he emigrated to Clinton, Iowa, where he would spend the rest of his life. Carl was thus part of a mid-to-late-nineteenth-century wave of Northern European immigrants who crossed the ocean looking for a better life and who settled much of the American Midwest and West after the U.S. had wrested the land from indigenous nations during the Plains Wars.
label: Description
content: Carl’s ties to his new community of Clinton, Iowa ran deep. His sons were born in this small Iowa town in the 1890s, and Carl was eventually buried there in 1950. The Hostrup sons would later move farther West: Christian lived in Santa Monica, California and died in Los Angeles, while Clarence lived in Madison, South Dakota. This tool thus speaks to the story of immigration and settler-colonialism in the American West.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Iowa, Clinton
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Carl M. Hostrup
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.324040
label: accession number
content: 266152
label: catalog number
content: 324040
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Die In Holder
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 9 in x 1 5/8 in; 5.715 cm x 22.86 cm x 4.1275 cm