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On October 26, 1858 a certain machine was invented by Hamilton Smith that would greatly decrease the time and labor needed for a common household chore. Washing machine for doing laundry have certainly evolved since Smith’s invention. In honor of today, Jared printed an image of a 130 year old washing machine. The electrotype (copy of a woodcut) is from the Lewis Winter Collection. While this is not an 1850s washing machine, what is depicted in the print, from the late 1880s, would have been use

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