EU: Reykjavik/Iceland: Laundry at Heißen Re (1917) through time

Reykjavík 1917 2 photos of this spot

2 photographs taken at the same spot in Reykjavík, spanning 1917 — 2 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

Women do laundry at a hot spring near Reykjavik, Iceland, making use of the geothermal water that has long been a feature of the area around the Icelandic capital for washing and bathing.

EU: Reykjavik/Iceland: Laundry at Heißen Re (1917) 1917 Women do laundry at a hot spring near Reykjavik, Iceland, making use of the geothermal water that has long been a feature of the area around the Icelandic capital for washing and bathing.

EU: Reykjavik/ Island: Stockfischtrocknen. Einheimische Frauen bei der Arbeit des Stockfischtrocknens in der Bucht von Reykjavik (1917) 1917 Local women dry stockfish along the shore of Reykjavik bay, Iceland, part of the traditional wind-drying process used to preserve cod for the fishing economy that sustained much of Iceland's coastal population.