Wash day – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Wash day, 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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Wash day
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Wash day" takes a household chore as its subject, and the title alone points the viewer toward the labor at the center of the scene. In the 1920s, washing was often a full-day job for American families: water was heated, clothes were scrubbed by hand or run through a wringer washer, and then hung outdoors to dry. Photographs of such everyday routines are valuable to historians because they record domestic work that was too familiar to seem worth documenting at the time.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [ca. 1925] |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,221 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-139564 |
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