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| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Milkmaid with pail and cow. Text reads: "Milking Time, Good Friends in Wisconsin, Scenes along the country roads." |
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| Description: | A crew of farm laborers taking a break from harvesting wheat while a young woman is offering food and drinks. They are posing in front of a reaper with the... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | The household staff (probably Swedish) for one family home, including laundresses, cooks, parlor maids, and scullery girls with their various work utensils... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin family inside their new bomb shelter. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | A group of Fond du Lac women sews clothes for a Civil Works Administration project in 1934. The CWA was an emergency program that lasted from November 1933... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An apron-clad woman broiling hamburgers in the kitchen. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Woman baking in a large kitchen with lean-to pantry and a wood-burning stove. The sconces or reflectors on the kerosene lamps intensified the light. |
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| Description: | Two women are standing on the small porch outside an open kitchen door, near implements used for daily household tasks such as washing, scrubbing, sweeping... |
| Date: | 05 1960 |
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| Description: | Two women serving coffee to customers at a coffee shop. Richland Center, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Amund Rustebakke, standing in doorway, and Siri Rustebakke, center, sitting, in front of a house with her daughters and daughter-in-law and four spinning w... |
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| Description: | Students in cooking class at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school, operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright. |
| Date: | 08 24 1968 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kress, dressed in lederhosen, enjoy beer and sweet corn at the Mid-summer Festival. |
| Date: | 07 1967 |
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| Description: | Several young boys selling fruit drinks, penny candy, and snow cones to parched pedestrians. A city bus is in the background. |
| Date: | 04 21 1957 |
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| Description: | An industrious family cleans their motorboat which is parked in the driveway. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Women preparing food for an annual Norwegian church supper at the Trinity Lutheran Church. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Sewing room at Lac du Flambeau U.S. Government School for Indian children. Female students posed at their sewing machines and work tables. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Woman sweeping snow off a porch. She is wearing a dress and apron. |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of woman, man and child outdoors on a farm with snow on the ground. The woman is wearing bloomers and is holding a bucket in the process of doi... |
| Date: | 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Members prepare a banquet to celebrate the eleventh anniversary of Auxiliary No. 2, United Automobile Workers (Seaman Body Company), October 23, 1946. E... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Loretta Falci (Lorenzina Fiocco Falci), an Italian woman, preparing sarsa, tomato paste on boards on the porch of her home, 622 Milton Street, as she holds... |
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