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Araihari, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows two women with a large washtub and a hammock, washing cloth and laying it on the hammock to dry. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 20... More

Michiyuki tamagawa no dan - Torii Kiyonaga

Print shows a man squatting next to a stream with a long piece of cloth in his hands, which he may be washing, and a woman standing next to him, also holding a long piece of cloth. They may be servants of the m... More

Araihari. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows two women hanging laundry. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Fujin tewaza jūnikō : Twelve occupations of ... More

Kinuta no tamagawa, Katsushika Hokusai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a woman daydreaming while leaning on a device for beating cloth; a young boy holding a cage is standing nearby. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print sp... More

Mutamagawa senmen harimaze, Katsushika Hokusai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows several fans with landscape scenes, a man traveling on horseback, and two women doing laundry or ironing. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print speciali... More

William Berryman - Mr. Bryan's washerwomen, Dry River

Drawing shows women washing clothes in tubs. Unpublished finding aid, Drawings of Jamaica by William Berryman, available in LC Prints & Photographs Reading Room.

William Berryman - Water hole, Dry River

Drawing shows women with wash tubs, probably doing laundry. Unpublished finding aid, Drawings of Jamaica by William Berryman, available in LC Prints & Photographs Reading Room.

View of the River Wye [England]

Illus. in: Aqua pictura / John Hassell. London, 1813. Public domain photograph - historical image of England, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kawa de no sentaku - Public domain drawing

Print shows four women at river's edge washing clothes; one woman has pulled out a piece of cloth which a crab has caught hold of, attracting the attention of a young child who dashes toward the water. Title an... More

Takuhatsusō to araihari wo suru onna

Print shows a woman with long strips of cloth in a large wooden tray, from a kimono that has been taken apart for cleaning, she is preparing them to be either washed or dried and stretched; another woman standi... More

Onden no suisha, Katsushika Hokusai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows women doing laundry at a waterwheel; Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Fuga... More

French laundry - Kendall Mfg. Co. Providence R.I.

Advertisement for Kendall Mfg. Company's "French Laundry Soap" showing a young woman beating clothes on a rock.

Shibakari to sentaku, Kuniyoshi Utagawa - Ukiyo e print

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie diptych. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Cong... More

Een waterplaats in Neder Californie

Mexican mestizo women washing clothes and carrying water jars on their heads, by a watering hole, as man stands next to them, California. Illus. in: Advonturen, gedurende een tweejarig verblijf in Califonië en ... More

[Government Hospital for the Insane (Saint Elizabeths Hospital), Washi...

Sheet no. 59. No. 472 in pencil. No. 2222. Gift ; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation ; 2010 ; (DLC/PP-2010:100) Forms part of: The AIA/AAF Collection (Library of Congress) Unp... More

[Women and girls, outside a building, washing clothes in a stream by p...

Inscriptions on back are difficult to decipher. Blind stamp in upper left corner: Bristol [Crown] Paper. Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 51. Purchase; G.V. Yudin; 1906. Forms part of: Yudin Collection (Library... More

Promysly u kirgiz. Kirgizskaia stupka

Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' promyslovai︠a︡, 1871-1872, part 3, p. 45.

The young housekeeper--Hanging up clothes / photo by Stuber.

Woman hanging laundry to dry on outdoor clothesline assisted by girl holding basket of clothespins. On recto: Gems of American Life. No. 574. Copyright by F.L. Stuber.

You're not goin swimmin' - Drawing. Public domain image.

No publication information. (DLC/PP-1934:0009). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

The young housekeeper--Washing day / photo by Stuber.

Woman in bonnet and shawl carrying filled laundry basket standing next to girl washing clothes in a wooden tub. On recto: Gems of American Life. No. 570. Copyright by F.L. Stuber.

[Floor plan of laundry and food storage rooms]

Reference copy may be in LOT 4394. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Illus. in: The New Housekeeper's Manual, 1873, by Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, p. 40. Caption c... More

Washing at the hot springs - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washing at the hot springs - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Locale and Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Women hanging laundry to dry. Detroit Publishing Co. no. X 8456. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Washing at the hot springs - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 08455. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Mexican laundry, Chihuahua, Mexico

Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898); title in catalog: Wash day on the Paseo. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 08321. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Bathing scene at hot springs acequia

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bathing in the hot spring acequia

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The tables turned - how our streets will look next year as a result of...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 50 (1880 March 27), p. 64.

Irishman (?) gesticulating to German with tankard and pipe who has tak...

Title devised by cataloger. No accession number. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.

Bathing tanks near Hercules, Mexico

Photo shows the former San Francisco Street (today Avenida 16 de Septiembre), facing north. The corner in the foreground probably shows the crossing with Prisciliano Sánchez Street. (Source: Roberto Duarte, 2012)

Laundry starch - Gilbert S. Graves, manufacturer, Buffalo, N.Y.

Advertisement for laundry starch manufactured by Gilbert S. Graves in Buffalo, New York, showing two women hanging laundry on a clothesline. B.G.S. Co.

"Queen of the laundry" Jas. S. Kirk & Co. soap makers Chicago

Advertisement for Jas. S. Kirk & Company's "Queen of the Laundry" soap showing a woman with a laundry basket standing before the "queen" seated on a throne fashioned from inverted wash tubs and washboards.

Bathing in the hot spring acequia

Locale and attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). An acequia is a trench. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 03907. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Mexican laundry, Chihuahua, Mexico

Picryl description: Public domain image of field, irrigation, agriculture, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washing at the hot springs - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washing at the hot springs - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washing at the hot springs - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Locale and attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Detroit Publishing Co. no. X 8454. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

The only Chinese bill that the president cannot veto

Print shows a Chinese laundry ticket that states "Clothes are given to the person showing the check - all responsibility then ceases. None given without a check; if lost, goods cannot be claimed. Not responsibl... More

[Women washing clothes in river and sitting outside dwellings in Greyt...

M. Longfellow, west of Broken Bow, Custer County, Nebraska.

summary: Note the cloths line strung in the foreground original size: 8x 5 1/2

John U. Kleeb, Round Valley, Custer County, Nebraska

summary: Note the laundry drying to the left of the photograph, and the cave ins the side of the hill to the upper right original size: 6x8

Mr. Southwaod, Broken Bow, Nebraska.

summary: Note the cloth spread over the plants in the background. The clothesline and tubs near the house suggest that this is laundry drying. original size: 6x8

East Custer County, Nebraska.. 19th century, Library of Congress colle...

summary: Note: Mary Landkamer of the Custer County Historical Society identifies this as the Joseph Kaelin, Sr. Family who lived one and one-half miles south of Weissert, Nebraska. In front of the sod house... More

Farm of W.W. Potts, Cat Creek, Custer County, Nebraska.

summary: Note: "See Butcher's History." Also note the clothes line attached to the sod house. original size: 6x8

Amusing Flaxie - Drawing. Public domain image.

(DLC/PP-1935:0022). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Ol' Pap's Flaxen" by Hamlin Garland, Century, 43:744 (March 1892).

Benares. Aurungzebs Mosque view, photochrome print postcard.

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "India. Benares. Aurungzebs Mosque". Print no. "20026. P.Z." Purchase; Marc Walter; 2015; (DLC/P... More

Benares. The Maharajah's of Nagbur Ghat

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "India. Benares. Ganges. Ghat of the Maharajahs of Nagpur". Print no. "20025. P.Z." Purchase; Ma... More

Dave Shaw, near Sargent, northwest Custer County, Nebraska.

summary: Note: To the left of the image near the well can be seen materials for doing laundry original size: 6x8

[Public laundry of St. Brigida, Genoa, Italy]

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009) Incorrect title listed in the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "Public lavatory of St. Brigida, Gen... More

Washerwoman of St. Pierre - Drawing. Public domain image.

No publication information. (DLC/PP-1939:0069.13). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[Women washing laundry in stream, Korea] - Frank G. Carpenter collecti...

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Public domain photograph related to the history of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Benares. Rajah Potia Temple view, photochrome print postcard.

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "India. Benares. Ganges. Rajah Potia Temple". Print no. "20024. P.Z." Purchase; Marc Walter; 201... More

Wash day - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Children pretending to do laundry. 10717 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1890 by Strohmeyer & Wyman.

Monday morning / Falk, photo. N.Y.

Advertisement for Kirkman's Borax Soap, showing rear view of four women hanging laundry on washline. 44178W U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Kirkman & Son.

Happy Laundry Girls. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

5 smiling women - advertisement for Kirkman's Borax Soap. Formerly filed as Oversize Miscellaneous, no. 14, A size. Card photo by Falk, N.Y., copyrighted by Kirkman & Son. This record contains unverified data f... More

Happy Laundry Girls. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

6 smiling women under tenement clothesline; caption reads: "Do we look cheerful? Washing clothes is pretty hard work generally, but if you use Kirkman's Borax Soap according to directions, it's really wonderful... More

Woman's rights - wash day - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpap...

Man doing laundry, as woman reads. 44372 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S.S. New York, washing clothes, US Navy. Dry Plate Negative by Detro...

Attribution based on negative D4-20739. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020778. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. Edward H. Hart, American photographer act... More

U.S.S. New York, washing clothes

Public domain photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Colombo - natives washing clothes at water's edge; railway train in ba...

Published as halftone in Harper's Weekly, 1895, p. 399. Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1... More

Street toilets - three women washing clothes

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Batavia - native women bathing and washing clothes beside canal

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Maori women washing clothes at the Hot Springs

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Woman with laundry hanging on clothesline

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

[African American workers doing laundry at the Bureau of Engraving & P...

Title devised by Library and BEP staff. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

A story without words - Drawing. Public domain image.

No accession number. Published in: Washington post. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

The new woman--wash day - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Posed cliché of woman in knickers smoking cigarette and watching man wash laundry in tub. 40642 U.S. Copyright Office. Similar images: LC-USZ62-98405 and LC-USZ62-98406.

Picryl description: Public domain image related to an industrial revol...

Public domain image with Picryl description as title Public domain photograph of hospital building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wash day in Mexico /. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

"Mexican International R. R. Series: the interesting views catalogued below were photographed by our artists, while enjoying the special privileges extended to Mr. Edison's party. Under a broad and intelligent ... More

[Hampton Institute, Virginia, 1899 - Classroom scenes - laundry shop]

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). LOT subdivision subject: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute - Vocational Training. C... More

[African American women and men posed by machinery, Lexington Laundry,...

Displayed as part of the American Negro exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900.

[Richmond Steam Laundry, Richmond Virginia]

Two horse-drawn wagons and group of black people in front of laundry.

Dog team used to deliver laundry, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collecti...

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Yard of tenement, New York, N.Y.

Title from jacket. "H 468" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036489. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

New York, N.Y., yard of tenement

Title from jacket. "H 734" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036490. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Yard of tenement at Park Ave. and 107th St., New York

Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[New York, N.Y., yard of tenement]

Public domain photograph - New York City, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Yard of tenement at Park Ave. and 107th St., New York

Possibly at Park and 104th Street. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 012532. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Yard of a tenement at Park Ave. Avenue and 107th St., New York

Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-31526. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 0588. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Family in an attic home with drying laundry]

Public domain photograph of Middle East, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Woman washing in tub] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Yard of a tenement at Park Ave. [Avenue] and 107th St., New York

Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woman washing in tub - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Title devised by cataloger. "Painting by Albert Worcester, no. 18" on jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043392. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Public laundry, India - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[African-American woman doing laundry with a scrub board and tub, Afri...

D18911 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: African-American women; African-Americans Domestic scenes; Laundry; African-Americans Working; 3; Shelf.

[United States Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, six boys doing l...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Laundry class, Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania]

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph of 20th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

In darkest Africa, Frances Benjamin Johnston collection

Photograph shows an African woman washing clothes at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, N.Y. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

Washday, a house in the old town, Naples, Italy

H6702 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1706. Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Black and white, an informal portrait of a young Negro woman surround...

A young African American woman working in the midst of clotheslines heavy with sheets and stockings. LOT 10137 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1964).... More

The public wash, Genoa, Italy - stereoscopic view, public domain photo...

Laundry hanging across street, from building to building. No. 1808. Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Home laundry - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Stereograph showing an infant lying in a laundry basket while a woman washes laundry in a wash tub in the background. H19037 U.S. Copyright Office. From series: The Kinsey views of Washington, published at Sed... More

Using nature's own tub and washboards on Lake Nicaragua, Granada, C. A...

H21106 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 12844. Copyright by B.L. Singley. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picry... More

[Little girl playing--doing laundry]

Copyright by W.E. Vilmer. "Monday" photo caption.

Fredriksted, St. Croix, W.I.: The principal laundry of Fredriksset - n...

Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 7807. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Puerto Rican laundry - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Locale based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 016744. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Puerto Rican laundry - Public domain print

Woman doing laundry in small stream. H38542 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Detroit Photographic Co. No. 016744.