Description: The postwar era brought about new technologies for the home, including the electric dryer. However, many farmers and rural people did not have access to these appliances. They relied on the old-fashioned clothesline outside of the house, as seen in this photograph by Joe Munroe, taken on an Indiana farm, 1947. Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B12_F08_001
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farm life; Family life; Clotheslines
Places: Indiana
 

Description: A dark-haired woman hangs laundry on the clothesline at the side of her house, while a dog stands nearby, south of Columbus, Ohio. A truck sits parked beside the clothesline, while a bicycle is sprawled on the ground underneath the hanging clothes. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B02F017_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Laundry; Clotheslines; Dogs
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: A dark-haired woman hangs laundry on the clothesline at the side of her house, while a dog lies on the grass nearby, south of Columbus, Ohio. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B02F018_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Laundry; Clotheslines; Dogs
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: A dark-haired woman hangs laundry on the clothesline in her yard south of Columbus, Ohio. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B02F019_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Laundry; Clotheslines
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Clothesline outside of a large rural Ohio home during the Depression era. This photograph was taken during the winter sometime between 1935 and 1943 as part of the Ohio Federal Writers' Project. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F04_003_009_001
Subjects: Great Depression; Rural life; Clotheslines
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Clothesline and what appears to be an ash can in the yard of a Depression-era home. This photograph was taken during winter sometime between 1935-1943 View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F04_003_012_001
Subjects: Clotheslines; Great Depression; Rural life
Places: Ohio