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Title
Girl's
Feedsack
Underdress
or
Sleepwear
Subject
Daily Life
Ohio Women
Sleepwear
Clothing & dress
Place
Toledo (Ohio)
Lucas County (Ohio)
Fostoria (Ohio)
Seneca County (Ohio)
Description
This
girl's
underdress
or
sleepwear
was
made
from a
feed
sack
around
1897-1917
.
It
is
made
from
soft
cotton
and
measures
21
inches
from the
center
back
. The
feed
sack
is
printed
with:
Minimum
crude
protein
15%
Minimum
crude
fat
4%
Minimum
crude
fiber
9
1/2%
The
Harter
Milling
Co
.
Toledo
,
Ohio
Isaac
Harter
founded
the
Harter
Milling
Company
in
Fostoria
,
Ohio
, in
1886
.
Alphonse
Mennel
, the
general
superintendent
,
became
president
of the
company
in
1896
.
Between
1897
and
1918
the
mill
operated
under
the
Harter
name
with
offices
in
Toledo
,
Ohio
. In
1917
, the
Mennel
family
acquired
the
company
and
changed
the
name
.
While
osnaberg
cotton
was
sometimes
used
to
ship
flour
and
burlap
was
used
to
ship
bran
, the
other
byproducts
of the
milling
operation
were
shipped
as
animal
feed
in
cotton
sacks
such
as the
one
used
for this
dress
.
Wayne
M
.
Weaver
, in
Dust
Between
my
Toes
: An
Amish
Boy's
Journey
,
recalls
that in the
early
1940s
his
mother
used
feed
sacks
to
make
everyday
shirts
for
boys
and
underslips
for the
girls
in the
family
.
Mrs
.
Weaver
prepared
the
material
by
washing
and
bleaching
the
sacks
a
number
of
times
to
soften
them and
fade
the
lettering
.
During
the
depression
of the
1930s
many
farm
families
,
Amish
and
non-Amish
used
feed
sacks
for
clothing
.
Date of Original
1897
-
1917
circa
Source
Historical object(s) or artifact(s)
1995.64.7
Submitting Institution
Kent State University Museum
Rights
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Type
StillImage
File Name
Om364_948609_001.tif
Image Height
1218
Image Width
602
File Size
198.371 KB
Format
picture
;
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