These impressive vintage photographs that show laundry in New York from the early 20th century.
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| Laundry, New York City, 1934 |
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| Lower east side of Manhattan in the 19th century |
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| Lower east side tenements, NYC, ca. late 1800s |
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| New York tenement yard, ca. 1900s |
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| Tenement halls, NYC, ca. 1900 |
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| Tenement houses, New York, ca. 1900 |
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| Tenement, New York, ca. 1890s |
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| Tudor City from 39th Street, ca. 1930-33 |
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| View from Chatham, New York, 1946 |
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| Young woman hanging laundry on clothesline, Harlem, 1948 |
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| Youngsters in an alley near East Broadway cavorted with their shadows in crisp sunlight, New York, Dec. 31, 1979 |
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| A New York tenement housing a family of seven, 1908 |
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| A view down an alley, as rows and rows of laundry hang from tenements, New York City, ca. 1930s |
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| A woman hanging out the laundry on the roof of her building, New York City, 1939 |
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| A woman hanging out the laundry, New York City, 1939 |
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| Clothes lines, New York City, 1955 |
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| Clotheslines, NYC, 1923 |
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| Court of first model tenement house on 72nd Street in New York, ca. 1930s |
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| Horton’s Ice Cream and Soda, New York, 1946 |
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| In Laundry Day, New York City, ca. 1930s |
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| Laundry out to dry, Brooklyn, 1946 |