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Antique Little Jewel Blindmade Broom Label Pennsylvania Working Home for Blind Men Philadelphia Patriotic Eagle WWI Era NOS 🧹 chewing_tobacco_collector and serious collectors building referenceWhat Does a Broom Label Tell You About the Men Who Made It? There is a particular kind of object that historians overlook precisely because it was never meant to last. A broom label. Gummed paper, printed in a small run, destined to be glued to a wooden handle and carried into a kitchen or a parlor or a factory floor and eventually thrown away when the broom wore down to nothing. That most of them didn't survive is exactly what makes the ones that did