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Washing Clothes at the River

Period:
19th Century
Description:
Before the advent of indoor plumbing women had to either carry heavy buckets of water from communal town pumps or in this case, carry equally heavy baskets of clothes to the river in order to wash them.
Materials/Media:
glass plate slide
Source:
Kilmaurs Library
Digital Number:
EAGP023n
Copyright:
East Ayrshire Council