The Maytag Corporation manufactures home appliances. It is most well known for its washing machines, but also produces dryers, dishwashers, cooktops, refrigerators, and ranges. Downer P. Dykes (1927-2014) was an industrial designer for the Maytag Corporation from 1953 until approximately 1960. He spent the majority of his career as a professor of industrial design at Kansas University from around 1960 to 1988, and was chairman and head of the industrial design department. This small collection of Maytag washing machine and dryer designs includes mechanical experimental drawings and pencil drawings by Dykes, primarily of various smaller parts of the machines, although some show the overall machine structure and design.