Beatty Bros. Ironing Board
Datec. 1930
DimensionsOverall: 9 x 32 x 144 cm
Credit LineGift of Mrs. R. Schofield, 2006.
Object number2006.027.001
Label TextAlthough known as ironing boards today, manufacturers first called this tool an ironing table because it was self-supporting. Before their invention and mass production in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women did their ironing on a table or on a board balanced between two chairs. Beatty Bros. was the largest maker of laundry related equipment in the country from the 1930's to the 1950's,
NameBoard, Ironing
c. 1930s
c. 1937
c. 1940s