The Eleanor

Oil on Canvas
12″ x 24″
$600
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McCarthy/Pedersen Ranch
During the Depression, the WPA built the most up-to-date outhouses the nation had ever seen.  Dubbed “The Eleanor,” after President’s Roosevelt’s wife, its toilet seat automatically dropped when one closed the door.  This kept all the flies out of the pot and made usage about as comfortable as that type of facility permitted.