This photograph of women doing laundry outside was likely taken sometime in the late 1800s or early 1900s. It’s part of Naper Settlement’s collection, provided to the Naperville history museum by the ...

SAN ANTONIO — Washing machines are not the quietest appliances, but Sue Ann Brooks' machine is so loud you can't stay in the same room with it. What makes that even worse is that it's less than a year ...

A Prospect woman bought a hi-tech machine thinking it would make laundry less of a chore but that wasn’t the case. Carmelita Rifkin was excited about getting her very first and only Magtag washer in ...

Way back in time I wrote a column about wash day in my family when I was a young boy. I recalled the log cabin that my father built back in the mid 20s and the fast moving spring running beside it ...

i remember these washing machines when i was a child the smell of wash day the clothes going through the wringer hot steam rising out of the tub and a constant fear of getting my fingers trapped in ...