Two Adv. Trade Cards - Women at Work - Laundry

Plymouth MA: National Laundry Journal, Horton Mfg. Co, 1880. Plymouth Steam Laundry - some toning. Western Washer - trimmed, light foxing at base. Two very different scenes of women at work on the laundry. The first is for Plymouth Steam Laundry, where a man is overseeing the work of a group of women folding and finishing laundry. Reverse blank. Measures 3.75" by 5.25". The second for The Fort Wayne Improved Western Washer depicts a mother at home supervising her young son turning the crank on their new wooden washing machine. A toddler pulls a cats tail at base. Reverse promotes the product. Measures 5/5" by 3.25