washing dishes: a father’s glimpses

http://www.digital-librarian.com/africanamerican.html provides a page full of portals and links including:

• African American Odyssey (from the Library of Congress) and
• African American Women

Along with this historic image from 1888:

source: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/rbc/lcrbmrp/t0d/a0d02-03.tif