A Monday washing, New York City – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of A Monday washing, New York City. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A Monday washing, New York City
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Laundry strung between the back walls of tenement houses gives this view its subject, a Monday washing, the weekly chore that filled many New York yards with drying sheets and shirts. The picture is a photochrom, a color process developed in Switzerland in the 1880s and used in the United States under license by the Detroit Photographic Company, which compiled such prints into albums as an office catalog. Made around 1900, it records the crowded rear of city housing, where many families had no home laundry and relied on lines stretched across narrow courtyards. The saturated colors make the drying linen stand out against the brick.
| Created / published | c1900. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. |
| Genre | Photochrom prints Color. |
| Notes | In album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 53622. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955. |
| Subjects | Laundry. Clotheslines. Tenement houses.United States--New York (State)--New York. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 723 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-79015 |
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