Collections Highlights – Silent Butler
Silent Butler
Date: 1893
This silver-plated hand-operated device was designed to pick up crumbs and small debris from flat surfaces. This silent butler is displayed in the cleaning section of Creating Homes: Women’s Domestic Labor of the 19th and 20th century, an exhibit that explores domestic ideology and domestic objects in America and how different groups of women and girls were impacted. Link to exhibit
Donated by Friends of Rancho Los Cerritos
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