Wringers: nine numbered illustrations of washing and wringing machines – Historic Print
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Wringers: nine numbered illustrations of washing and wringing machines comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Wringers: nine numbered illustrations of washing and wringing machines
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This picture is a set of nine numbered illustrations, each showing a washing or wringing machine, so it reads more like a catalog page or a demonstration sheet than a single scene. Hand-cranked wringers, with two rubber or wooden rollers that squeezed water from wet laundry, were a common sight on farms and in homes from the late 1800s into the early 1900s, before electric machines took over. Doing the family wash was a long weekly task, and a wringer cut hours of twisting by hand. Numbered views like these were often used to compare designs or explain how a machine worked.
| Original scan | 4,049 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 8e04624u Page from The Growth of |
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