Ellen Eqlin -Shoulder bag

This unusual shoulder bag in tobacco color Is100% leather.Measuring 10"1/2" X 12"1/2" shoulder strap bag  and the sides have woven leather straps passing through in a chocolate basket weave .With two interior leather pockets. This bag can travel in many different crowds.

         "You're never alone when you carry a handbag"

Based on accounts from Charlotte Smith in the publication" The women inventor"Ellen Elgin, a black housekeeper and government clerk in Washington  ,D.C. sold her invention of  a "special type of clothes wringer" That used two rollers and a crank to squeeze water from clothing. "You know that I am black and if it be known that a negro woman patented the invention white ladies would not buy the wringer. I was afraid to be known because of my color in having it introduced in the market, that is the only reason". She sold the rights to a unknown white man In 1888 for $18.00. Which later became the American Wringer company.