Doing the dishes is a common household chore for New Zealand children – emptying and stacking the dishwasher is the 2000s equivalent to the scene shown here. Young Phyllis Godber is washing the dishes in a large metal bowl on the kitchen table around 1911. Her clothes are protected by a big bib apron.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Albert Percy Godber Collection (PA-Group-00048)
Reference:
APG-1393-1/2; G
Photograph by Albert Percy Godber
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