Outhouse
An outhouse is a small building that covers a toilet.[1][2] The toilet inside is often either a pit latrine or a bucket toilet, but other forms of dry (non-flushing) toilets may be found.
Outhouse Media
Historical community sanitation poster promoting sanitary outhouse designs (Illinois, US, 1940)
Outhouse in the mountains in northern Norway
Outhouse used by sharecroppers on display, Louisiana State Cotton Museum, Lake Providence
Outhouse with squat toilet inside (Poland)
Log outhouse at a public-use cabin, Chena River State Recreation Area, Alaska
Norman Park, Queensland, around 1950; like many areas of Brisbane this area was unsewered until the late 1960s[source?], with each house having an outhouse or "dunny" in the back yard. The little sheds in each back yard are outhouses.
Eight-seat stone outhouse at the Thomas Leiper Estate near Wallingford, Pennsylvania
A brick outhouse at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest estate near Lynchburg, Virginia
References
- ↑ Cary, "Jackpine" Bob (2003). The All-American Outhouse–Stories, Design & Construction (print). Cambridge, MN: Adventure Publications. ISBN 978-1-59193-011-2.
- ↑ "Sewer History: Photos and Graphics". Archived from the original on 2018-02-25. Retrieved 2019-03-12.
Other websites
The dictionary definition of outhouse at Wiktionary
Media related to Outhouses at Wikimedia Commons