Photographer’s Notes:

In Etretet, Normandy, with the dramatic cliffs as background, these women hand wash laundry in the freshwater springs that surface on the beach. Gustave Courbet painted this same view, The Sea-Arch at Etretat, in 1869.

This image is from a set of more than 200 nitrocellulose negatives discovered in Minneapolis. The images were shot in Europe during 1904, photographer unknown.