The caption accompanying this photo is worthy of being quoted in full:"Lititz, Pennsylvania. Mrs. R.W. (Elizabeth) Almoney, forty-seven (center rear), has had eleven children. She works as a gauge inspector at the Animal Trap Company and on Sunday does the washing. Her husband (left) works in the local chocolate factory. Daughter Arline, twenty (right), who also works at the Animal Trap Company, is cooking Sunday dinner. There are three brothers in the service, and one Boy Scout, age thirteen, in the family."
Before birth control was legal, and prior to automatic clothes washers, there was a lot more work - and a lot less play.
Photo taken in 1942 by Marjory Collins.
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