Leaching ashes for soft soap

Leaching ashes for soft soap

Wisconsin
Men -- Wisconsin

A white man stands over a leaching barrel reaching over its edge with a pail. A hollowed out half-log is under the barrel guiding lye into a second pail on the ground. A house is partly visible in the background.

Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940

Image from opposite page 242 of Highways and Byways of the Mississippi Valley by Clifton Johnson, 1906

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