Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
99.21.056
Accession#:
99.21
Credit Line:
Donated by Mary Ann Parke.
Object Name:
Hanger
Title:
Miner's Clothes Hanging Basket
Date:
1920
Description:
Wire basket with bale handle. 4—prong clothes hook on base of basket. Whole basket of bent iron wire.
Notes:
Collected and preserved by Thomas S. Parke. Likely collected from abandoned mine property in Juneau area.
See doc file: "Keystone Catalogue 1926 / Metal—Quarry Edition," pg 854, Union Sanitary Clothes Hanger with photo of hangers in use. M.P. Wyatt has seen pictures of rounded style like this 1. Basket used to hang miners clothing and equipment in drying rooms of underground mines.
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