Originally Posted by Charlee
Funny!! I just found this same article in some of my genealogy stuff....was always going to print it and frame it with this photo of William's great grandmother!
and i just found that hand agitator in your photo in my dad's basement, from his mother's things from the farm. she had seven boys--five lived to marry and have families. and she "vashed" (swedish) da clothes by hand, ja, with it for many years before she got her old wringer washer.
i still have the old copper boiler she used on the woodstove for the whites, too. i hang mine outside, sometimes, just in honor of all they did in the past...