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Making Buckwheat Pancakes

Date: 09 13 1949
Description: Elderly woman making pancakes on griddle at wood burning stove.
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Woman with Blender

Date: 03 18 1955
Description: Woman stirring the contents of an Osterizer blender that is sitting on the stove.
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Woman in Kitchen

Date: 1950
Description: Woman pouring a cup of coffee.
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Television

Date: 1950
Description: A young woman is displaying a television set.
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Waitress Tending Table in McCormick Works Club House

Date: 06 19 1907
Description: Waitress tending a table in the dining room of the McCormick Works Club House.
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Testing a Westinghouse Refrigerator

Date: 01 03 1938
Description: Testing a Westinghouse refrigerator (door open with food inside and woman standing behind the open door) with wires from an Official Test Panel attached to...
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Little Girl with Burned Foot

Date: 08 17 1934
Description: Carol Skuldt sitting outdoors on a stoop with bandaged burned feet from a brush fire. She is holding a food item.
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Nettie Livingston

Date: 06 08 1934
Description: Outdoor portrait of Nettie Livingston, 1205 Vilas Avenue, who works as a maid at Wisconsin General Hospital, hopes to win a vacation at the Bowman House, a...
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Volunteers of America Giving Out a Thanksgiving Basket

Date: 11 29 1933
Description: Volunteers of America volunteer handing out a Thanksgiving food basket.
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Melvina Capron and her Radio

Date: 08 02 1933
Description: Melvina (Mrs. Samuel) Capron, 222 N. Bassett Street, listening to a radio and reenacting the night in 1923 when she heard that President Warren G. Harding ...
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Woman Nursing Lambs with Bottles

Date: 1946
Description: Mrs. Floyd French of Newton, Iowa feeds two orphaned lambs using beer or soda bottles. A Farmall tractor is in the background. According to the original ca...
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Family at Dining Room Table

Date: 1900
Description: A family poses at the dining room table after dinner in Luther Valley.
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International Harvester 8H3 Deluxe Refrigerator

Date: 1949
Description: Woman wearing an apron and high heels gazing upon a well-stocked International Harvester 8H3 Deluxe refrigerator.
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Females Sewing at the Pima Agency

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Description: Women and girls sewing in a room at the Pima Agency, near Phoenix.
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Manchester's Vogue Show Window

Date: 10 01 1947
Description: H.S. Manchester Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street, show window displaying the Vogue "1947 look" in women's clothing. Includes a mannequin dressed in the 1947 lon...
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Food Dehydrator

Date: 1944
Description: A woman wearing an apron is pulling a tray out from what appears to be a food dehydrator.
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Girl Wringing Out Shorts

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Description: A young girl helps her mother with laundry by wringing out a pair of shorts next to a wash basin.
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Feeding Milk to a Calf

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Description: A farming man and woman holding a horse and feeding milk to a baby cow.
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Woman Making Spoon Bread

Date: 04 11 1969
Description: Mrs. Lloyd Knox demonstrating the technique of making spoon bread.
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Mrs. Wilbur Shrieder in Walk-In Refrigerator

Date: 1941
Description: Mrs. Wilbur Shrieder stands in a 6 x 12 foot refrigerated walk-in storage area.

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