Oslo 19401128 Interior from Prinds Christian Augusts Minde / Mangelsgården Storgaten …, 1940 (photo)

Oslo 19401128 Interior from Prinds Christian Augusts Minde / Mangelsgården Storgaten 36, Laundry. Man in work by large washing machine. The building was built in 1698 as a mure for General Tritcher, and rebuilt in the 1770s. Workplace with workshops and dorms created in 1812. Parts of the buildings have also been asylum. Proposed protected in 2006. Because several of the old workshops are still intact. Here from the laundry from 1856. Here, both ordinary washing, but early also to other textile treatment such as staining of woven products and yarn. It is difficult to determine whether the textile coil undergoes the usual dirt wash or another kind of preparation. Photo: NTB / NTB