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Dark brown and grey sewing machine design with chrome strip featuring "v" shape at head of machine.

Drawing, Design for White Sewing WCI Sewing Machine, 1970
pastel, brush and gouache, pen and black ink, graphite on paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Griffith Bailey Coale and from Eleanor....
1992-181-3

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Drawing divided into two registers. In top register, a scene of two women weaving fabric in a room. On the left, a woman weaves at a loom and looks out at the viewer. The woman on the right sits at a table looking at fabric patterns. In the bottom register, depictions of tools and embroidery patterns labeled with figure numbers.

Print, Brodeur, (The Embroiderer's Workshop), Diderot's Encyclopaedia, 1763
engraving on white paper.
Gift of Mrs. George A. Kubler.
1949-152-188

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Manufacturer's prototype: four-tined fork with curved contoured handle; matt surface.

Eva Fork Prototype, 2012
stainless steel.
Gift of the Estate of Eva Zeisel.
2014-8-14

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Design for a motif with a brown hand with fingers pointing upwards and facing palm forward. Superimposed over the wrist of the hand is a drafting triangle, rendered in outline. The wrist and part of the arm extending from the hand is shaded in black. Surrounding the image, faint framing lines in graphite.

Drawing, Design for a Motif with Hand and Drafting Triangle, 1935–1938
brush and gouache, graphite on thick paper.
Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
1963-39-963

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Poster advertising "Low Technology: Artists Made Machines", curated by Larry Reid at the Center on Contemporary Art. Features a tire, printed in black against orange background. A face in a gas mask emerges from the treads at the center of the tire. Two men with pickaxes, in miniature, assault the tire as another tries to scale its side.

Poster, Low Technology, 1990
screenprint on white paper.
Gift of Art Chantry.
1995-69-89

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Design for a British General Post Office poster. Shape of a black telephone receiver facing forward, standing upright on a striped blue-gray ground. Text in white, at both ends of the receiver: "HELLO"; Superimposed overfblue brushtrokes in white and black text, center: THE TELEPHONE; below, on either side of the telephone receiver, in blue text: AT YOUR / SERVICE.

Drawing, Design for "The Telephone at Your Service", April 9, 1937
brush and gouache, graphite on paper.
Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
1963-39-524

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

A depiction of the various tools used by embroiderers and patterns for stitched knots. Each is labeled with a figure number.

Print, Brodeur, from Diderot's Encyclopaedia, 1763
engraving on white paper.
Gift of Mrs. George A. Kubler.
1949-152-189

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Orange 3D paper glasses with white graphics: a ladder, a circle; in blue: April / Greiman / Reinhold / Brown / Gallery; plastic transparent ovals, one in blue and one in red.

3D Glasses, April Greiman - Reinhold, 1986
lithograph on paper, plastic color filters.
Gift of April Greiman.
1995-167-5

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Title between two vignettes: "Displaying to the horror stricken old woman the wonderful inhabitants of a Drop of Water".

Print, "The Microscope", Spooner's Transformations, No. 2, ca. 1838
lithograph, watercolor.
Gift of Hamill and Barker.
1961-105-8

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

White nylon prosthetic leg, spanning mid-thigh to foot; hollow form, jointed to bend at knee and foot.

Prosthetic Leg Prototype, 2014
selective laser-sintered polyamide (nylon).
Gift of 3D Systems.
2016-2-2

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 7 images and 2 videos of this object.

On black ground, gray straight pins, scattered haphazardly and interwoven with white straight and safety pins.

Drawing, Textile Design: Safety Pins, 1918–25
brush and black, white, and grey gouache, graphite on white paper.
Museum purchase from Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Fund.
2000-14-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Metal body with control dial and roughly square indicator window on top; surmounted by dark brown plastic handle with transparent red section in center.

American Beauty Iron, ca. 1945
metal, plastic, rubber, electrical components.
Gift of Mel Byars.
1991-59-167

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Metal body surmounted by shaped black plastic handle, the front edge swept back; large black plastic lever-like control knob on metal body, below handle.

Manning-Bowman Automatic Iron, 1937
cast and polished metal, molded phenolic plastic.
Gift of Carole Krohn.
1993-126-1

This object was made by Manning-Bowman & Co..
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Metal body with control dial and roughly square indicator window on top; surmounted by dark brown plastic handle with transparent orange section in center.

American Beauty Iron, ca. 1945
metal, plastic, rubber, electrical components.
Gift of Carole Krohn.
1993-126-2

This object was made by American Electrical Heater Company.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Metal body surmounted by a black plastic handle, with control dial in shape of iron.

General Electric Hi-Speed Calrod Moderne Iron, ca. 1937
cast and polished steel, molded phenolic resin.
Gift of Carole Krohn.
1993-126-4

This object was made by General Electric Company.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Cylindrical metal shaft with black on/off switch on side, conical orange and black plastic lamp housing (partially turns to rise and create focusing beam).

Flashlight (England), ca. 1980
molded plastic, aluminum.
Gift of Max and Barbara Pine.
1994-59-7

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Model 28 Vacuum Cleaner, 1947

Model 28 Vacuum Cleaner, 1947
molded bakelite, metal, fabric.
Gift in honor of Erma E. Heagy by Edna M. Gingrich.
1996-120-1-a/k

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Travel Iron (Denmark), ca. 1950

Travel Iron (Denmark), ca. 1950
cast metal, molded plastic, fabric (cord).
Museum purchase from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
1998-9-1

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Gray conical speaker on its side attached to standing rectangular base with straight telescopic antenna. Text and controls lower right of base.

Sound Station Radio, 1995
molded plastic, metal.
Gift of Max Pine and Lois Mander.
2008-9-2

This object was made by Matalie Crasset.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

In shape of a boat, in antique manner, mounted on circular gilded foot with square black base; gilded handle, curved and terminating in animal’s head.

Lamp (England), ca. 1815
enameled tôle.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Talbot Jones Taylor.
1912-18-21

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

Oil Lamp
terra-cotta.
1924-25-2

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

tallow, oil lamp on ajustable shaft.

Lamp (USA), ca. 1780
tin.
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair in memory of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
1941-98-38-a,b

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

Grease lamp of red earthenware; base with flaring rim which is circular except for one wick channel. Wooden stand with turned column rising from circular base and supported circular piece on which lamp rests.

Betty Lamp, ca. 1840
earthenware, turned wood.
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair in memory of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
1941-98-41-a,b

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

Wells of blown glass on stepped (pressed) bases shaped in four lobes; fitted with two tubes in tin plates (marked "PATENT") with original cork packing.

Lamp (USA), ca. 1835
blown and pressed glass, tin, cork.
1942-26-1-a/d

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.