A Monday washing, New York – Historic Print
(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 Monday washing, New York comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A Monday washing, New York
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Clotheslines full of drying laundry rise above the apartment houses in this view of New York, a record of a Monday wash day around 1900. Monday was traditionally laundry day in many households, when clothes were scrubbed, rinsed and hung out to dry in shared yards and open spaces. The print is a photochrom, a process that produced color images from several printed impressions, and the Detroit Photographic Company held the American rights to make such views. Its bright color gives an ordinary household chore a cheerful, almost showpiece look.
| Created / published | c1900. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. |
| Genre | Photochrom prints Color 1900. |
| Notes | Copyright by Detroit Photographic Co. No. 53622. |
| Subjects | Clotheslines--New York (State)--New York--1900. Laundry--New York (State)--New York--1900. Apartment houses--New York (State)--New York--1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,461 × 1,169 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218092 |
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