Churn
date: label: date made
content: 1917-1925
notes: label: Description
content: Metal churn. Mixing element comprised of one piece of heavy steel, perforated with large circular holes throughout, attached sideways on thick metal shaft. Shaft attaches to iron cogwheel and crankwheel at top, which turn to create mixing action, metal arm with unpainted wooden handle attached. Molded handle on side, all upper components are molded iron or steel. Mixing apparatus is attached to thin metal lid, flat with upper lip which fits into top of accompanying container, metal cylinder. Cylinder has white sticker on bottom with "428" handwritten on it. Only mark on mixing apparatus is the number "83" stamped on top.
label: Description
content: Unmarked, but may be a product of the maker Bernhardt Novelty Company, Spokane, Washington.
label: Description
content: Related patent: US 1215214 A, February 6, 1917, Charles A. Stewart, Worcester, Massachusetts, for "Dasher".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place made
content: United States: Washington, Spokane
label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
label: place used
content: United States: Ohio, Columbus
setName: label: See more items in
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.322793.28
label: accession number
content: 322793
label: catalog number
content: 76-FT-01.1061
label: collector/donor number
content: 428
objectType: label: Object Name
content: churn, metal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 9 1/4 in x 6 5/8 in; 33.02 cm x 23.495 cm x 16.8275 cm