Penley's Klose Klips Clothes Pins, 1930-1940
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These Klose Klip brand clothespins promised "no tearing, no soiling, no freezing to line." No freezing? Before automatic clothes dryers became common, many housewives hung their wet laundry on a clothesline outdoors -- even in cold weather. Suspended from a metal clip, Klose Klip clothespins assured that clean laundry wouldn't be soiled by contact with any dirt found on a cotton clothesline that hung continually outdoors.
These Klose Klip brand clothespins promised "no tearing, no soiling, no freezing to line." No freezing? Before automatic clothes dryers became common, many housewives hung their wet laundry on a clothesline outdoors -- even in cold weather. Suspended from a metal clip, Klose Klip clothespins assured that clean laundry wouldn't be soiled by contact with any dirt found on a cotton clothesline that hung continually outdoors.
Artifact
Packaging
Date Made
1930-1940
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
2012.88.401
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift from the Collection of Susan Strongman Fiems by Dennis Fiems.
Material
Cardboard
Wood (Plant material)
Inscriptions
Penley's Klose Klips Clothes Pins
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