Hanging out the washing during the floods |
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| Title : | Hanging out the washing during the floods |
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| Creator : | Advertiser Newspapers Ltd., photographer | ||
| Date of creation : | 1956 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Dimensions : | 191 x 250 mm | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Copyright : | This item is reproduced courtesy of Advertiser Newspapers Pty Ltd. It may be printed or saved for research or study. Use for any other purpose requires written permission from Advertiser Newspapers Pty Ltd and the State Library of South Australia. To request approval, complete the Permission to publish form. |
| Description : |
River Murray floods, Mannum - a housewife keeps up with normal chores hanging out her washing on a Hills Hoist clothes line. The Hills Hoist clothes line was developed in a suburban backyard in Adelaide in 1945 and has since become an Australian cultural icon. |
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| Related names : | Hills Industries |
| Coverage year : | 1956 |
| Place : | Mannum |
| Region : | Riverland and Murraylands |
| Further reading : | Harris, David. What a line!: the story of the people who made the hoist an Australian icon: fifty years of Hills, Melrose Park, SA: Hills Printing Services, 1996 Port, Leo with Brian Murray. Australian inventors, Stanmore, NSW: Cassell Australia, 1978 |
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