Home washing machine & wringer – Historic Print
![Home washing machine & wringer, New York : [1869?] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/58/58f32d8ae10e-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with Home washing machine & wringer, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Home washing machine & wringer
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A color lithograph window card from around 1869, this advertisement pairs a washing machine with a wringer, the hand-cranked rollers that squeezed water from wet laundry. Window cards like this were pasted in shop windows and sales rooms to draw customers inside. Before home appliances, washday meant hauling water, scrubbing by hand, and wringing sheets and clothes by arm, so the machine's promise of lighter, faster work was the central sales pitch. The card's domestic scene, with its focus on the kitchen and the woman doing the work, shows how manufacturers marketed these machines to the women who would use them.
| Created / published | New York : [1869?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Window cards 1860-1870.Advertisements 1860-1870.Lithographs Color 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan Harvey ... [et al.]. Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. xxii. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 110. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2002. |
| Subjects | Women--Domestic life--1860-1870. Washing machines--1860-1870. Kitchens--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,454 × 1,164 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218455 |
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