Flax Spinning Wheel; Mount Vernon?; 18th C.
date: label: date made
content: 18th century ?
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: Flax spinning wheel; Missing flyer and bobbin. According to the donor, this wheel ( and a yarn reel also part of this donation) descended in his family, and was said to have been used at Mount Vernon, George Washington's estate. .Edward Hall was at the time of the donation (1914) the President of Banks Business College in Philadelphia, PA.
label: Description
content: Further research is indicated - George Washington's enslaved workers operated a textile making workshop for the estate.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Hand Tools
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Edward E. Hall
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T01191.000
label: catalog number
content: T01191.000
label: accession number
content: 56613
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Spinning Wheel, Flax