Hand-Cranked Laundry Wringer on a Wash Tub

Before washing machines had a spin cycle, wet laundry was fed through a wringer like this one. Two rollers squeezed out the water while someone turned the crank. The saying put through the wringer comes straight from these machines. Here a damp white cloth hangs between cream rollers on an old cast iron frame, clamped to a chipped wooden wash tub in a bare laundry room. In the laundry wringer jigsaw puzzle, water is still dripping from the cloth into the tub.