Filling Orders

Dan Barry: Another special request came in the other day to the old brick factory on Gallagher Avenue, where pride — if not much profit — is taken in being the country's last maker of washboards. A worker, one of only four, all women, reached for an empty box and began to fill the order.

One metal washtub

One coil of clothesline

One pack of clothespins

Two bars of soap

Six tins of foot powder