If you have photos of items you wish to contribute to this page, please email them to info@swahsociety.com along with a description of each item in the photos. (Note: Click on the thumbnail to open a larger view of the photo.)
A washboard used to scrub clothes. Owned by Emma Spurrell of Butter Cove. (Photo donated by Sylvia Meadus) |
Delilah Smith’s gas wringer washer, 1952, possibly the first in Hodge’s Cove. |
Singer sewing machine, Model No. 127K, manufactured 14 June 1939 at Clydebank, Scotland. This machine was owned by Mary Ann (Mamie) Vey Smith. She used it right up to a year or so before she passed away at the age of 93 years in 2007. It is now owned by her grand-daughter, Wanda Jennings Garrett. |