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The public wash, Genoa, Italy – Vintage Wall Art

The public wash, Genoa, Italy, c1902. — historic photograph
The public wash, Genoa, Italy, c1902.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Washing lines and a communal laundry give this stereograph its subject: a working scene from Genoa, the port city on Italy's Ligurian coast, caught around 1902. Public washing places were a common sight in Italian towns of the period, where households without running water at home carried their linen to shared basins, often fed by a fountain or channel, to scrub and rinse it in company. The card is one of a series of stereoviews of foreign street life that were sold to parlor viewers, who could see the scene in depth through a hand-held viewer.

Created / publishedc1902.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenreStereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesNo. 1808.
SubjectsLaundry--Italy--Genoa--1900-1910. Clotheslines--Italy--Genoa--1900-1910. Domestic life--Italy--Genoa--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,144 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-164588

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