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Children wash before lunch at the nursery school at the Red Hook housing project community center in Brooklyn, New York. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein, June 1942. View full size.
This is a very good picture and i think paper towels were invented for the sole purpose of a dispensible one time use towel rather than a shared towel with many ppl with which u had to rewash
...Jonny...
Paper towels were invented in 1907 by Scott Paper, apparently in response to students in schools catching colds from shared towels.
If you look at the large image you will see the words on the paper towel dispenser on the wall.
In the child care centers where I have worked, both sexes washed before meals in the same bathroom. This was different from bathroom breaks, where boys went to the boys' room and girls to the girls' room.
…or did they have shared restrooms?
The title: are you referring to the paper towels? I didn't know they had them in 1942. If not, what is the meaning of your title?
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