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Women doing laundry in a yard in the Adirondacks

Women doing laundry in a yard in the Adirondacks

Women wash laundry in wooden washtubs. Woman in center holds washboard next to upright clothes wringer. Woman on right rinses out a clothes boiler. Children play in barrels and a wooden wagon while the women work. Photograph by Henry M. Beach. 1900. In the Adirondack region, NY. Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience

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