Contents
1. Trying To Do a Million Things at Once (1950s)2. Baking With Rollers In, Because You Had To Look the Part (1974)3. Boiling Clothes To Clean Them (1939)4. Dressed to the Nines (1955)5. Gotta Keep the Hair Covered in the Kitchen6. Making Dinner With the Cutest Apron (1955)7. A Housewife, a Fancy Cake, and a TV Walk Into a Kitchen …8. A Missouri Housewife With the Diary She Kept During the Civil War (1860s)9. Say ‘Cheese’ While You’re Grabbing the Eggs10. Bargaining Over Produce in Washington, D.C. (1941)11. Grocery Get12. Ironing in the Kitchen (1954)13. Neighborhood Gymnastics (1943)14. Do I Have To? (1960s)15. Cleaning a Lightbulb, As One Does16. Posing With a Week’s Worth of Groceries (1947)17. The Redheaded Wisconsin Housewife (1971)Want a closer look at life in midcentury America?
Housewives are the cogs in the machine that is the American household. From boiling laundry before washing machines ever existed to baking cakes through the ’50s (while fully dolled up), these vintage photos of suburban housewives should resonate with everyone. Because who doesn’t know a busy woman who tries her hardest to tackle it all?
1. Trying To Do a Million Things at Once (1950s)
2. Baking With Rollers In, Because You Had To Look the Part (1974)
3. Boiling Clothes To Clean Them (1939)
4. Dressed to the Nines (1955)
5. Gotta Keep the Hair Covered in the Kitchen
6. Making Dinner With the Cutest Apron (1955)
7. A Housewife, a Fancy Cake, and a TV Walk Into a Kitchen …
8. A Missouri Housewife With the Diary She Kept During the Civil War (1860s)
9. Say ‘Cheese’ While You’re Grabbing the Eggs
10. Bargaining Over Produce in Washington, D.C. (1941)
11. Grocery Get
12. Ironing in the Kitchen (1954)
13. Neighborhood Gymnastics (1943)
14. Do I Have To? (1960s)
15. Cleaning a Lightbulb, As One Does
16. Posing With a Week’s Worth of Groceries (1947)
17. The Redheaded Wisconsin Housewife (1971)
Want a closer look at life in midcentury America?
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