Washing machine
About this photograph
- Provider
- Biltmore Company
- Date created
- 2007
- Location
- Asheville, North Carolina
- License
- Copyright unknown.
See this photograph in context
- A technological tour of the Biltmore Estate: This tour of “America's Castle” explains the technological features George Vanderbilt incorporated into his turn-of-the-century home. (Page 3)
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- Search LEARN NC for antiques, Biltmore Estate, history, laundry, North Carolina, technology, and washing machines.
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- See our collection of articles on visual literacy for ideas on using photographs meaningfully in the classroom.
A color photograph of an antique washing machine in a light colored room. The washing machine is a large metal canister device operated by a pulley system. The machine has a wheel on one end with long belts that are attached to a pulley suspended from the ceiling. Also in the room is a treadle sewing machine.
