Three-quarters portrait of an unidentified man standing at a steam press at a laundry or dry cleaner. A pair of pants is lying on the press.

Minnie Claire Salve[?] and Sallie Knowles of Astoria washing laundry. Transcription from front: “1. Minnie Claire Salve[?] Astoria 2. Sallie Knowles, Astoria.” Transcription from back: “A. A. Clarke Collection.”

A woman doing laundry at the Meadowlark trailer camp for shipyard workers, near the Oregon Shipyards in St. Johns, Portland. She appears to be using a laundry wringer next to a utility sink, with other washing units visible throughout the scene. The camp owner, J.F. Gilmore, was arrested multiple times in 1943 for running a camp without a certificate of inspection (negative 8 of 10).

Photograph showing a woman washing clothes in a basin at at a detention center for Japanese Americans at the Pacific International Livestock Exposition building in Portland. A young child stands next to the basin facing towards the woman, wearing overalls. She is kneeling on the ground and holding a washboard. After Executive Order 9066, the building served as a temporary detention center for Japanese Americans, From May through September of 1942, awaiting eventual transfer to more permanent incarceration centers. Photograph from this series were published in the Oregon Journal on Sunday, May 31, 1942 (negative 6 of 15).

Nuns from the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary at the Christie School in Marylhurst. They wear aprons and habits as they iron laundry on ironing boards (negative 7 of 8).

Sarah Hall Ladd washing laundry in a trough at the end of a flume. Caption from negative sleeve reads, "Wash Lady, R-16, LW-16."

Clean laundry hanging from lines on the deck of Lily E. White's houseboat, the Raysark. Beacon Rock is visible in the distance.

A photograph showing a Marie Holst Pottsmith on wash day in Hamlet at the rear of the Hill homestead house. She stands at a wooden wash bin and clothes are visible on a line next to her. The bath house, where she developed film and printed pictures, is visible behind her.

A group of seven men and women pose inside a large room. There are ironing boards and laundry hanging from the ceiling. A man can be seen standing separately from the group on the right hand side of the image.

Interior of a laundry facility in Silverton, Oregon. Two men stand inside looking at the camera. Two large cylindrical metal machines line the wall next to the men and other machinery can be seen behind them.