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  • H. Ordinary People & Everyday Life | History of SC Slide Collection

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A Berkeley County Woman Doing Laundry | History Of SC Slide Collection
A Berkeley County Woman Doing Laundry | History Of SC Slide Collection

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A Berkeley County woman squeezes excess water out of her clean laundry by running clothes through a mechanical wringer. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
Wash-Day On This Georgetown County Plantation | History Of SC Slide Collection
Wash-Day On This Georgetown County Plantation | History Of SC Slide Collection

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A cast iron wash pot sits in the front yard of one of the houses on this Georgetown County plantation, photographed around 1900. Washday meant boiling the wash, wringing it out laboriously by hand...
A Typical "Dug Well" | History Of SC Slide Collection
A Typical "Dug Well" | History Of SC Slide Collection

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A typical "dug well" with a bucket and wooden base was a common sight in the yards of most mill village or farm families. This photograph was taken as part of the report of the U.S. Medical Corps on...
A Jasper County Woman's New Storage Shelves | History Of SC Slide Collection
A Jasper County Woman's New Storage Shelves | History Of SC Slide Collection

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This Jasper County woman proudly displays the new shelves she has built in her home to store her home canning, early 1950s. Courtesy of the Jasper County Chamber of Commerce.
A Fishing Boat Cook Peeling Potatoes | History Of SC Slide Collection
A Fishing Boat Cook Peeling Potatoes | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Women are not the only ones who cook in South Carolina! This cook on a fishing boat in Charleston is peeling potatoes for Christmas dinner in December 1938. Photograph for the Farm Security...
Wood Burning Stoves | History Of SC Slide Collection
Wood Burning Stoves | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Cooking today is a very different matter from the days of wood-burning stoves, when an important chore of children of the house was keeping the stove supplied with wood. This cast-iron stove was...
The Wicklow Hall Plantation Kitchen Building | History Of SC Slide Collection
The Wicklow Hall Plantation Kitchen Building | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The Wicklow Hall Plantation kitchen building, photographed in the 1930s. Kitchen buildings were not part of the main house on a plantation, but were built at a small distance, both to reduce the risk...
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