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3 photos and 1 illustration tagged washboard, from 4 members of Flickr Commons.

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• laundry
• bldigital
• date1890
• pubplacelondon
• publicdomain
• sysnum000474548
• brinemarydmarydow
• medium
• vol0
• page86
• mechanicalcurator
• imagesfrombook000474548
• imagesfromvolume0004745480
• washing
• child
• sherlocknet:tag=lady
• sherlocknet:tag=english
• sherlocknet:tag=little
• sherlocknet:tag=poor
• sherlocknet:tag=book
• sherlocknet:tag=morn
• sherlocknet:tag=sweet
• sherlocknet:tag=young
• sherlocknet:tag=century

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• JWA Commons 1 photo / illustration
• OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons 1 photo / illustration
• British Library 1 photo / illustration

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Sarah Brody- Washing clothes in France

from JWA Commons

• BobMeade said:

  This caption, " Washing clothes in helmet with very little water", appears to be incorrect. The women pictured is holding a rectangular shaped washboard upon her thighs. It has a wooden frame with a galvanized iron corrugated centerpiece or corrugated glass centerpiece against which the dirty clothes are rubbed to wash them. I have a washboard almost identical to the one in the photograph. With three buckets available, it is hard to see how a helmet would have been used. See some washboard references here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washboard images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&q=washboard&um=...