I am not that ancient and used to take a bath in a tub of rain water when I stayed at mamaws. They didn't have running water till right before they passed. So they caught rain in tubs and strained the water for bathing.
Not necessarily what he's doing in this photo. When I was small, my Mom took a large galvanized tub like this and filled it with water outside so we could cool down. We didn't have a swiming pool.
Yep me too! In my granny's kitchen close to her wood cook stove. I loved it at her house! No plumbing and cold well water from the dipper! Miss my granny!
I have my Grandmother's tub from the 30's, We used it in the 50's to cool off in the summer.... Now It makes a great Ice Bucket at our back yard Barbecues lol🌞🍺🍗🍺🍔🍹🍹
Not just babies, my grand mom told me about when she was still living at home the dad would wash first, then the mom then oldest to youngest in the same water and in a tub out side. She was a lucky one since she was older and there were 11 of the kids total.... that is a lot of dirt since they had to work on the land to help the family to be able to live.
Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...
I moved back to Texas in 2021 and I want more information about my grandfather, John Thomas Harman. His father was John Tapley Harman. "Tom" died in 1933 near Hedley, TX. My grandma Estelle was a telephone operator for over 30 in the Texas panhandle.