Laundry
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A one-page encyclopedia entry on the laundry as a place and an industry. It explains the origin of the words laundry, launder and laundress, then describes mechanized washing, hydro-extractor drying, and mangles and calender-type finishing machines that replaced hand methods.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1911
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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