This wooden washtub came from my Grandpa’s. I remember it being used when clothes were washed under the shelter. The shelter was part of a multi-use building. The car was parked under one shelter with enclosed sides. There was a ladder leading up to the loft where the washtub was stored. The other shelter had a front part which was used primarily for washing clothes. The back part was used to house an old Delco power plant that was used to generate electricity before REA came through with power lines. This is an early memory of the Delco. I don’t remember much about it except that it had a lot of black soot in that part of the shelter. There was a door to get to that part of the shelter. Later, when I was older, the back part of the shelter was used as a smokehouse.
Wooden washtubs were soon replaced with galvanized metal washtubs which I associate with the wringer type washing machines.
Very cool! I can picture the multi-use shelter. I never experienced the Delco power thing; the door opened to the smokehouse in my memory.