Without the modern conveniences of electricity and indoor plumbing, farm families of the 1920s and 1930s in Minnesota had to make do much as their pioneer ancestors had. This photograph, taken in 1920, shows a farm woman ironing in her farmhouse kitchen. She is using havey flatirons that had to be heated on the woodburning stove. When the iron cooled, it would go back on the stove and replaced with a hot one.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Date: 1920
Identifer: location GT2.51 r34
