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Wash Out on Line in Camp
A washing / laundry photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.
Handwritten caption: "Wash out on line in camp."
A real photo postcard addressed to "Mr. Irving C. Towsend, 400 M St., N.W., Local," and postmarked on September 7, 1908, in Washington D.C.
"Wash out on line in camp," of course, refers to the laundry drying on the clothesline that we see here in the photo. But it's also a punning allusion to a washout on a railway line, which happens when railroad tracks are undercut by erosion.
A popular comic postcard from the 1900s also makes this humorous connection (the only copy that I could quickly locate is a listing on the CardCow site). Entitled "Washout on the Line," the card shows an illustration of a shirt hanging on a clothesline along with drawings of two telegrams. The first telegram says, "Wash out on line. Can not leave. Jim." The second one replies, "Buy a new shirt and come along. Jack."
Handwritten caption: "Wash out on line in camp."
A real photo postcard addressed to "Mr. Irving C. Towsend, 400 M St., N.W., Local," and postmarked on September 7, 1908, in Washington D.C.
"Wash out on line in camp," of course, refers to the laundry drying on the clothesline that we see here in the photo. But it's also a punning allusion to a washout on a railway line, which happens when railroad tracks are undercut by erosion.
A popular comic postcard from the 1900s also makes this humorous connection (the only copy that I could quickly locate is a listing on the CardCow site). Entitled "Washout on the Line," the card shows an illustration of a shirt hanging on a clothesline along with drawings of two telegrams. The first telegram says, "Wash out on line. Can not leave. Jim." The second one replies, "Buy a new shirt and come along. Jack."
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