The Canadian Science and Technology Museum has an outstanding exhibit on the history of laundry that shows how women did washing by hand, often down by a river, and then hung articles of clothing to dry in the sun. Doing laundry was a time consuming and labor intensive chore as commercial laundries did not exist for centuries to come.
Blue Monday is the first page of the exhibit, will a full Table of Contents at the bottom of their webpage.
The illustration of the early home washing machine with its hang wringer, primitive by today’s home washers, was a welcome addition when it became available.
