House brooms and iron

House brooms and iron
A Visit to Ms. Catherine's House

House brooms and iron

Beside the fireplace are two of Ms. Jannie Pinkney’s house brooms. One is very old and worn. An iron sits in the fireplace, just as it did when Ms. Catherine lived here. She heated one iron while she ironed with a second one.

Photo 1999.

Note: More information available from Amelia Wallace Vernon, African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University, 1993. Reprint. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1995), pp. 62, 63.