Wigglesworth House, 303 Adams Street, Milton, Mass., laundry room

Item Information

Title:
Wigglesworth House, 303 Adams Street, Milton, Mass., laundry room
Description:
This interior view shows a room, possibly a laundry room, in the Wigglesworth House at 303 Adams Street in Milton, Massachusetts. Mrs. Eda Borgeson, who was from Norway, worked as a laundress in the house for over fifty years. She uses a clothes wringer.
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
PC002: Domestic interiors photographic collection
Subjects:
interior decoration
houses
dwellings
laundry rooms
irons (tools)
laundry baskets
ironing boards
laundresses
Adams Street (Milton, Mass.)
Laundry (Library of Congress Subject Heading)
clothes wringers
Washboards
Borgeson, Eda
Places:
Massachusetts > Norfolk (county) > Milton
Wigglesworth House (Milton, Mass.)
Extent:
1 photograph ; 7 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches
Link to Item:
https://gusn.us/221249
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
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Identifier:
221249
Call #:
PC002.USMA.Milton.134-01.18