3238

Sweeper, Carpet

1923

Carpet Sweeper. Material: metal, wood. Size: 10" W. x 14 1/4" L. x 52 1/2" H. Description: wood handle; metal sweeper mechanism at bottom; print on metal: "Bissell's Superba with Cyco Ball Bearing."

Purchased from Mahler Hardware about 1923. Used by Mr. and Mrs. John Mayberry, Mary Johnson in their home. Donor's husband, John Mayberry Johnson (also called Jim) was a miller. He worked in the Waseca Everett-Aughenbaugh Mills and in Minneapolis, Chicago & Montgomery. They were married in 1910.