Title:
Wheel
Description:
Spinning wheel.
Description:
Historical Note: An interesting relic of early days in Texas is this crude, old wooden spinning wheel, added to the Governor's Mansion collection of historic pieces by Mrs. Willie Cooper Hobby, daughter of former United States Representative Samuel Bronson Cooper, and wife of Governor William Pettus Hobby. This spinning wheel used to be a part of the bedroom of state, better known as the Sam Houston Room, in the Allred administration. It is a reminder of the times when cloth had to be made by hand and homespun clothes were the rule. According to accession notes: The wheel was made in 1839 on the plantation of I.D. Thomas, five miles south of San Augustine, Texas, for a 15-year-old negro slave named Kitty, who died in 1914, at the age of 90 years. At the close of the Civil War, the wheel was given to Kitty. She sold it in 1888 to Samuel D. Willard, with whose descendents Judge H.B. Short of Center, Texas, located it and from whom it was secured for the mansion.
Identifier:
ATF0377
Item identifier:
ATF0377
Collection:
Artifacts collection
Date of creation:
1839
Subject:
Pease, E. M. (Elisha Marshall), 1812-1883
Subject:
Pease, Lucadia Christiana Niles, 1813-1905
Subject:
Texas. Governor
Subject:
Pease family
Type:
Image
Type:
Textile Manufacturing Equipment
Type:
Wheel, Spinning
Medium:
Wood (plant material)
Citation information:
ATF0377, Artifacts collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Copyright information:
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Size or duration:
45 in diameter x 5 in depth