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- Tennessee Fabricating Company Catalog, "Ornamental Iron Accessories," 1959 - The Tennessee Fabricating Company created a variety of ornamental ironwork for the American home. The company offered a wide range of products, including house markers, mailbox stands, porch columns and railings, door grillwork, and even weathervanes. This 1959 catalog gives a sample of the decorative metalwork available from the Memphis-based company.
- 1959
- Collections - Artifact
Tennessee Fabricating Company Catalog, "Ornamental Iron Accessories," 1959
The Tennessee Fabricating Company created a variety of ornamental ironwork for the American home. The company offered a wide range of products, including house markers, mailbox stands, porch columns and railings, door grillwork, and even weathervanes. This 1959 catalog gives a sample of the decorative metalwork available from the Memphis-based company.
- Washboard, circa 1918 - Before mechanized washing machines, doing laundry was perhaps a homemaker's least favorite job. The work began by heating gallons of water, often lugged to a waiting laundry tub. Next, the homemaker scrubbed the dirty clothes clean on textured washboards like this before rinsing and wringing clothes before hanging them to dry. The sometimes days-long process was backbreaking and time-consuming.
- circa 1918
- Collections - Artifact
Washboard, circa 1918
Before mechanized washing machines, doing laundry was perhaps a homemaker's least favorite job. The work began by heating gallons of water, often lugged to a waiting laundry tub. Next, the homemaker scrubbed the dirty clothes clean on textured washboards like this before rinsing and wringing clothes before hanging them to dry. The sometimes days-long process was backbreaking and time-consuming.
- Robbins & Myers Electric Fan, 1949-1955 -
- 1949-1955
- Collections - Artifact
Robbins & Myers Electric Fan, 1949-1955
- Holiday Inn "Great" Sign, circa 1960 - When the first Holiday Inns opened in 1952, guests at roadside hotels were mostly traveling families who couldn't always plan their stops ahead of time. This sign -- taller and flashier than some but not radically different from other blinking neon highway signs -- was designed to be spotted from the new interstates. As Holiday Inns multiplied, the sign became a message: "Turn here for a predictable, quality experience."
- circa 1960
- Collections - Artifact
Holiday Inn "Great" Sign, circa 1960
When the first Holiday Inns opened in 1952, guests at roadside hotels were mostly traveling families who couldn't always plan their stops ahead of time. This sign -- taller and flashier than some but not radically different from other blinking neon highway signs -- was designed to be spotted from the new interstates. As Holiday Inns multiplied, the sign became a message: "Turn here for a predictable, quality experience."
- Washboard, circa 1918 - Before mechanized washing machines, doing laundry was perhaps a homemaker's least favorite job. The work began by heating gallons of water, often lugged to a waiting laundry tub. Next, the homemaker scrubbed the dirty clothes clean on textured washboards like this before rinsing and wringing clothes before hanging them to dry. The sometimes days-long process was backbreaking and time-consuming.
- circa 1918
- Collections - Artifact
Washboard, circa 1918
Before mechanized washing machines, doing laundry was perhaps a homemaker's least favorite job. The work began by heating gallons of water, often lugged to a waiting laundry tub. Next, the homemaker scrubbed the dirty clothes clean on textured washboards like this before rinsing and wringing clothes before hanging them to dry. The sometimes days-long process was backbreaking and time-consuming.
- Quilt "American Glory," circa 1961 -
- circa 1961
- Collections - Artifact
Quilt "American Glory," circa 1961
- I Am a Man: Photographs of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1993 -
- 1968
- Collections - Artifact
I Am a Man: Photographs of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1993
- Holiday Inn Bar Soap, 1960-1970 - Many travelers appreciated knowing exactly what to expect at the end of a long day on the road. Travelers could be assured to find standardized products in rooms from the same motel chain. This bar of soap was collected from a Holiday Inn during the mid- to late-twentieth century.
- 1960-1970
- Collections - Artifact
Holiday Inn Bar Soap, 1960-1970
Many travelers appreciated knowing exactly what to expect at the end of a long day on the road. Travelers could be assured to find standardized products in rooms from the same motel chain. This bar of soap was collected from a Holiday Inn during the mid- to late-twentieth century.
- Washboard, circa 1918 - Before mechanized washing machines, doing laundry was perhaps a homemaker's least favorite job. The work began by heating gallons of water, often lugged to a waiting laundry tub. Next, the homemaker scrubbed the dirty clothes clean on textured washboards like this before rinsing and wringing clothes before hanging them to dry. The sometimes days-long process was backbreaking and time-consuming.
- circa 1918
- Collections - Artifact
Washboard, circa 1918
Before mechanized washing machines, doing laundry was perhaps a homemaker's least favorite job. The work began by heating gallons of water, often lugged to a waiting laundry tub. Next, the homemaker scrubbed the dirty clothes clean on textured washboards like this before rinsing and wringing clothes before hanging them to dry. The sometimes days-long process was backbreaking and time-consuming.
- Holiday Inn Bar Soap, 1960-1970 - Many travelers appreciated knowing exactly what to expect at the end of a long day on the road. Travelers could be assured to find standardized products in rooms from the same motel chain. This bar of soap was collected from a Holiday Inn during the mid- to late-twentieth century.
- 1960-1970
- Collections - Artifact
Holiday Inn Bar Soap, 1960-1970
Many travelers appreciated knowing exactly what to expect at the end of a long day on the road. Travelers could be assured to find standardized products in rooms from the same motel chain. This bar of soap was collected from a Holiday Inn during the mid- to late-twentieth century.