United States, Georgia, Richmond County, 33.35963, -82.07355Williams, Robert E., d. 19371872/1898Digital image of black and white photograph taken in the late 19th century, scanned by the University of Georgia Libraries in 1999 as part of GALILEO.Photograph of four African American women wearing kerchiefs and aprons and washing laundry outdoors in wooden tubs of boiling water. They use their hands and wooden dowels to wring and rotate the laundry, and a wooden washboard rests beside a tree trunk in the far right. A very shallow pit (for making fires to boil water?) is in the foreground, and various items of laundry hang to dry on tree branches in the backgound.image/jpeghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/African Americans--Georgia--Richmond County--1870-1910LaundryWash tubsHouseworkWashboardsDomestic life[Photograph of African American women washing laundry in outdoor tubs in or near Richmond County, Ga., in late 19th century]StillImage