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Friday, August 11, 2023

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.


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?