Details
Creator Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909.
Title Don't tell me you won't wash. [graphic] / Photographed and published by B. W. Kilburn.
Publisher Littleton, N.H.: B. W. Kilburn
Publisher NH. Littleton. 1897
Date c1897
Physical Description 1 photographic print: gelatin silver on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description Comic genre scene showing a shrewish woman attacking her hen-pecked husband at a wash tub to satirize the New Woman. In a semi-dilapidated kitchen setting, the woman stretches over the tub and grabs her grimacing husband by his hair. Wash lays on the floor near a small heating stove. The walls are adorned with a rolling pin, clock, birdcage, portrait prints, and placard reading "Home & Mother."
Notes Photographer's imprint printed on verso.
Warped pink mount with rounded corners.
Negative number printed on mount: 12263.
Companion stereograph to 1897 Kilburn stereogaph, #12262, "Woman's Rights," showing a New Woman at leisure as her husband does laundry at a washtub.
Gift of Jesse Randall.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note Kilburn, successor to stereograph publisher Kilburn Brothers in 1877, broadened the firm's portfolio from White Mountain scenery to include genre and comic subjects and international views.
Subject Women's rights.
Spouses.
Relations between the sexes.
Domestic life.
Sex role.
Laundry.
Genre Stereographs -- 1890-1900.
Gelatin silver prints -- 1890-1900.
Genre photographs -- 1890-1900.
Humorous pictures -- 1890-1900.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Kilburn - Genre [P.2005.19.8]
Accession number P.2005.19.8