Queen of the Laundry, c. 1880

Characters & Display
Written By Darin Alexander
1880 chromolithograph trade card titled "Queen of the Laundry," Jas. S. Kirk & Co. Soap Makers, Chicago, showing a laundress with a basket of wash standing before a crowned queen seated on a throne made of wash tubs and washboards.

A washerwoman curtsies before a queen enthroned on a stack of wash tubs.

A queen on a throne of wash tubs, 1880.

Darin Alexander
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