Improved Clothes Washing Machine

Washing machines--1870-1880

Wooden washing machine, 35" L x 19" W x 47" H, manufactured near the Flagg Mill on Shelburne Falls Road by William B. Fay and Charles C. Flagg, who ran a sawmill. Missing "action piece," the cleaning mechanism which hung from center bar.

Fay, William Brower, 1818-1879
Flagg, Charles Chandler, 1839-1920

1870s
1873-10-21 (patent date)

Gift of Robert Corse.

CHS

CHS. Fair use.

CHS-1983-136.1

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Physical object

CHS-1983-136

Conway, Mass.

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