Woman at the Kitchen Sink, 1950s

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Woman at the Kitchen Sink, 1950s — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1950–1959

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A woman stands at a farmhouse kitchen sink doing dishes, wearing an apron over her housedress in the manner of someone who has done this particular thing every day for twenty years and expects to do it for twenty more. To her left sits a pale blue refrigerator — the kind whose top families used as a shelf because they had not yet been told not to — and to her right a wood-burning stove with its black flue pipe rising to the ceiling, which is to say that this kitchen was heated by one era and cooled by another simultaneously, a transition so gradual no one in it would have noticed. The 1950s were selling Americans on the modern kitchen as liberation, and the magazines were full of it. The woman in this one was not reading the magazines.

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