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| Description: | Woman washing dishes in a kitchen sink. Kitchen utensils are hanging on the wall and the cabinets are open, revealing cleaning supplies made by Lux, Bon Am... |
| Date: | 11 1919 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Robert Viall operating a belt-driven cream separator. The separator is powered by an International engine. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A young man sitting at a table buttering a slice of bread. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Woman sitting and preparing string beans for canning. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Young girl feeding a calf from a bucket while standing in a field. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Woman cleaning kerosene lamps on the front porch(?) of her house. |
| Date: | 05 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Eshe demonstrating the washing of laundry with a washboard, ringer and tub in front of a farm house. The original caption reads: "Washing with no impr... |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Woman chopping wood on the farm of E.A. Bancroft. |
| Date: | 05 1923 |
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| Description: | Miss Neary drawing a bucket of water from a well next to a farmhouse. The original caption reads: "Drawing water from well. Miss Neary posing. Mr. Hyde pho... |
| Date: | 04 17 1957 |
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| Description: | A Girl Scout crocheting doilies at a senior citizens' care center with her "adoptive grandmother." |
| Date: | 05 26 1956 |
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| Description: | A boy kneeling down to scrub a pot that is resting in a basin of soapy water. |
| Date: | 06 22 1989 |
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| Description: | Boy mixes chocolate chip cookie dough at his YMCA daycare center in Big Cedar Lake. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for a washer wringer from the 1913 Sears Catalog. |
| Date: | 05 14 1989 |
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| Description: | A man leans out a window to clean the outside glass. |
| Date: | 01 23 1957 |
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| Description: | A man clad in a chef's apron tests a pan of chicken for doneness. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Engraving of a woman sitting in a chair with light from an attic window shining on her face. Next to her is a rumpled bed and a pull-toy overturned on the ... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Engraving of a woman carrying a bundle of clothing and standing with her back to the sea. Behind her other women are in the process of doing wash in the wa... |
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| Description: | In a photograph taken for the Farm Security Administration, a man hangs socks to dry on a clothesline on land where trees have been cut down, or cutover. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A woman pours tea for her friends seated outdoors at a table. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin home economics students have a tea party. |
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