Object Details
- Description
- Small foot-powered flax spinning wheel complete with distaff, 19th century. Owned by Mrs. Anne Ferguson Taylor, of Galena, Kent County, Maryland, grandmother of the donor, and daughter of the Rev. Colin Ferguson, first president of Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland. Chestertown, Maryland.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- unknown
- Date made
- 19th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Eugene W. Johnson
- Object Name
- Spinning Wheel, Flax
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