Herbert Hoover’s Laundry

I went to the art museum yesterday evening and—laundry! On the line, even (center, left), detail from “Birthplace of Herbert Hoover, West Bend, Iowa”, by Grant Wood, 1931.

collections.artsmia.org/art/2805/the-birthplace-of-herbert-hoover-grant-wood

I went home and googled “herbert hoover laundry”. 

How ‘bout that:

Hoover attended Stanford University, and to help pay for college, he started a laundry service. He arranged for students’ dirty clothes to be picked up every Monday and returned clean the following Saturday.

I can’t find out who did the laundry—I imagine some washerwomen?