Laundry Agitator
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Identifier: Tobacco Farm Life Museum
Many clothes, such as undergarments, are too delicate to be washed vigorously with a washboard. In cases such as these, the farm family uses a vacuum clothes washer that acts as a plunger to clean their clothes. This clothes washer, a metal, cone-like head, with a wooden handle, acts like a plunger when moved up and down in a tub of water. A vacuum force is created that rids the clothes of dirt. This process is gentler than scrubbing on a board and allows for longer ware of delicates. Early 20th Century. $http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/artifact.aspx?id=tav more...
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Many clothes, such as undergarments, are too delicate to be washed vigorously with a washboard. In cases such as these, the farm family uses a vacuum clothes washer that acts as a plunger to clean their clothes. This clothes washer, a metal, cone-like head, with a wooden handle, acts like a plunger when moved up and down in a tub of water. A vacuum force is created that rids the clothes of dirt. This process is gentler than scrubbing on a board and allows for longer ware of delicates. Early 20th Century. $http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/artifact.aspx?id=tav
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Tobacco Farm Life Museum
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North Carolina History and Fiction Collection
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Tobacco Farm Life Museum

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http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/13959

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