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Woman and girl with laundry on balcony in Ho Chi Minh City's Chinatown
About this photograph
- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- May 1997
- Location
- Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam
- License
- This photograph copyright ©1997. Terms of use
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- Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences: Photographs and text tell the story of fishing, trade, and Chinese influence on the history and culture of Vietnam. (Page 22)
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- Search LEARN NC for Chinatown, Cholon, girls, Ho Chi Minh City, laundry, urban life, and women's work.
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A young woman and girl call down from an apartment balcony in Ho Chi Minh City’s Chinatown. The young woman on the left holds clothing that she is hanging or removing from the laundry pole and hangers overhead.
In many urban apartments throughout Southeast Asia, laundry is washed in basins by hand and hung to dry on balconies. Even in apartments with automatic washing machines, drying is done without machines because clothes dry rapidly outdoors in the tropics.
