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Associated Press Mother Nature Takes in Washing

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09677.46 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Mountatin View, New Jersey Type: Photograph Date: 1958 Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 20.7 cm, Width: 25.3 cm Order a Copy

One wirephoto released by Associated Press dated 1958. Shows a wash line hanging from a tree. The clothing dips into the water due to the Passaic River flooding over the banks.

1945 to the Present
Disaster
Nature
The Fifties

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