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[Clotheslines in New Orleans courtyard, ca. 1925] – Historic Print

[Clotheslines in New Orleans courtyard, ca. 1925] — historic photograph
[Clotheslines in New Orleans courtyard, ca. 1925]. Historic photograph from the New Orleans collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Clotheslines in New Orleans courtyard, ca. 1925], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Clotheslines in New Orleans courtyard, ca. 1925]

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Strung between balconies and iron railings, the wash lines in this courtyard view show how working households in New Orleans made use of every bit of shared space. Around 1925 the city's older neighborhoods were dense with multi-family buildings, where laundry was often hung in open yards and galleries because most homes had no drying room. Courtyards like this one were the everyday center of life for many residents, and the photograph captures a domestic routine that rarely made it into civic pictures of the city. Its catalog record offers little beyond the title and date, so the scene is best read as a window onto that period's ordinary labor.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesca. 1925.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,991 × 1,500 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137974

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