Fairfield County Museum

Winnsboro, South Carolina

(803) 635-9811

Open:

10 – 5 Tuesdays – Fridays

10 – 3 Saturdays

www.fairfieldchamber.org/museum.html

A Woman’s World

• Butter Churns.

• “Treenware” includes these wooden tools such as rolling pins, spoons, and a pestle made for grinding food in a mortar bowl.

• The cast iron items are from left to right; a sausage stuffer, bowl or pot, and a fancy apple corer or peeler.

A Woman’s World

• Left to right, top row: Sweeper made of field broom straw, metal candle mold, sausage paddle, lemon squeezer.

• Second row: advertising thermometer, metal ice shaver.

• Bottom row; curd or cheese strainer, ice cream mold.

• “Treenware” spoons, rolling pin, a nutmeg grater and two blade choppers.

• These old flat irons had removable wooden handles that insulated the worker's hand from the heat of the iron.

A Woman’s World

A Woman’s World• It was a Victorian fashion to

braid the hair of a loved one into hollow beads, bands, or cords. The hair of a deceased person was also inserted into lockets for remembrance.

• Another Victorian past time was creating beautiful autograph albums, sometimes inserting mementos such as these braids.

A Woman’s World

Far left: This sampler was a practice needlework piece for a young girl.

Above: 19th Century sewing machines.

Left: Assorted waffle irons and griddles.

• From the left top corner: A Saratoga potato slicer was a device that cut early “French Fries.”

• The wooden mallets were used for various purposes both for women's and men's jobs.

• The long handled floor scrubber was drilled with holes through which coarse corn shucks were threaded. As floors were usually worn and grooved, these shucks had to be replaced often.

• Another lemon squeezer hangs on the right.

• Below the scrubber is a long-handled gourd used for dipping water from the well bucket.

• The handle of a cleaver is seen at the bottom with the top of a coffee grinder seen in the corner.

A Man’s World

• The egg incubator was warmed by an oil-fired heater under a container of water attached on the right.

• The heavy metal gadget above was a portable horse hitch, carried from house to house by the town's doctor when out on calls.

A Man’s World

• Store owners sold sections of tobacco leaves cut for the buyer on this tobacco cutter. Smokers rolled their own cigarettes or crushed the leaf into their smoking pipes.

Clothing• Imagine having

to wash your clothes by hand in a large iron pot heated over a fire. The wooden and tin scrub boards were used to scrub the cloth.

Clothing

• The white men's shirt above had a removable buttoned collar. It is in the original folded and wrapped condition in which it was brought home from the launderer's establishment.

• The high topped ladies' boots and buttoned children's shoes were typical of the late 1800s to early 1900s. The white linen and leather slippers in the right corner were worn by a bride in 1787. The shoes' silk outer covering has long since disintegrated.

Clothing

• Buttoning red child's shoes.

• These metallic thread and silk embroidered slippers were brought back to Winnsboro from the Orient by a turn-of-the-century missionary.

Around the House• The old Delco radio

was made in 1938 and still works.

• The chamber pot cabinet with the comfortable wooden seat was used in the house when there was no indoor plumbing. The pot was regularly emptied outside.

Around the House

• Cast lead soldiers date to World War I, whereas the airplanes were of more recent vintage. The cannons were universal boys toys for many generations.

Around the Town

• Homemade beverages such as corn liquor were kept in these crockery jugs. Note the elaborate tobacco cutter on the left.

• The platform scales were used in the Winnsboro Post Office. Various counterweights are seen beside it.

Medical Needs• Doctors carried powdered

pharmaceuticals in vials for patients on house calls.

• The tall beaker in the left corner is for collecting blood.

• The large saw in the right bottom corner was used in amputations.

• The medical book from 1805 contains a chapter on bloodletting with leeches and knives.

Medical Needs

School Supplies• All students carried

chalk and a slate board for their classwork assignments.

• The box of wax crayons looks familiar to those of today.

• The stiff covered notebook ledger was used universally.

• The two cards advertise cough syrup.

The Fairfield County Museum