Sherman's Improved Clothes Wringer

Boston: By the author, 1870. Very good. Small broadside, n. d. (1870s); 8 1/4 x 5 1/4; off-white stock, printed in black and illustrated with a wood engraving; a few minor spots and light creasing to corners; in very good condition.A common, everyday task - washing clothes took much longer time and more effort in the 19th century than it does today. Among the various inventions, designed to ease the process were drying closets, mangling machines, laundry stoves, and wringers. The latter were hand-cranked devices with rollers, through which the clothes were passed and the excess water was squeezed out. The wringers were also advertised as saving soap, because the suds could be “wrung back into the washing compartment” and reused. The Sherman Clothes Wringer was said to be superior to all other similar devices, as it was made of the best galvanized iron (never rusting and wearing out) and the rolls were manufactured from the best vulcanized rubber (not damaging the clothes, which passed through).