Old Washing Machines at Harvest Festival

 

 

 

In the Harvest Festival at Santa Rosa, there are display of old machines.   To wash clothes, one would first have to get water off the ground.
 

Washing board and pressing board are the beginning of the aid to cloth washing.

 

Washing board with the aid a gas engine gives the idea of making a washer for clothes.

 

Here is the first Maytag cloth washer; Maytag is still a big name in the appliance world.