Flatiron
date: label: date made
content: 1886 - 1892
name: label: maker
content: A. C. Williams Company
notes: label: Description
content: Cold handle, double-point iron with removable or detachable arched wood grip, oval in section. Maker, place manufactured and size "2" are cast in top plate screwed to body. Handle ends are attached to a horizontal base with locking mechanism topped by a wood button knop; "31" cast in underside of base.
label: Description
content: Handle is interchangeable with DL.314637.0067 (larger size "2" iron) and DL.314637.0072 (smaller size "1" iron).
label: Description
content: Maker is iron castings manufacturer A. C. Williams Company of Chagrin Falls and Ravenna, OH; 1886-present (now Lite Metals Company, specializing in magnesium and aluminum castings). Named for Adam Clark Williams and successor firm to J. W. Williams Co. (started by Adam's father, John Wesley Williams, in 1844) and J. W. Williams & Son (after Adam joined the business in 1870). Operations were located in Chagrin Falls, OH, until fires in 1889 and 1892 prompted move to Ravenna, OH, in 1892.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Chagrin Falls
topic: label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
label: Subject
content: Laundry
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Edith R. Meggers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.314637.0067
label: catalog number
content: 314637.0067
label: accession number
content: 314637
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flatiron
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: walnut (handle, knop material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 6 5/8 in x 3 3/8 in; 13.335 cm x 16.8275 cm x 8.5725 cm