Framed or unframed, desk size to sofa size, printed by us in Arizona and Alabama since 2007. Explore now.
Shorpy is funded by you. Patreon contributors get an ad-free experience.
Learn more.
September 1937. "Camp near Effie, Minnesota. Lumberjack washing his feet." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.
Working in wet leaf litter and sopping sphagnum moss for ten hours a day could lead to trench foot. Keeping your feet clean and dry was paramount. It also helped keep down the stink!
No doubt used to open the scented bath salts.
Oh my, look at the flies! I remember those flies up in bog country.
Finally, a Shorpy Photo that's in no way better in full size.
have his own bucket ?? Never mind, I don't want to know !
Back then you didn't wash all of yourself at once, you did it in parts! I still remember shivering in the morning in a cold bathroom. Standing at a sink with half of me exposed to the cold air, passing a soapy cold wash cloth over places meant to be kept warm, wishing I could just go back to sleep instead.
On Shorpy:
Today’s Top 5