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| Date: | 10 1927 |
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| Description: | Woman vacuuming rug with a "Vacuette" sweeper in a farmhouse living room. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Woman cleaning a wooden floor in an open doorway of her farmhouse with a scrub brush. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Woman dumping wash water from a metal wash basin on the back step of her farmhouse. |
| Date: | 01 13 1956 |
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| Description: | Edna Kern washing the windows outside her house. A cat is lying on the lawn in the foreground. |
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| Description: | A woman washes clothes in a tub on the back steps of a farmhouse. In the background, clothes hang on a clothesline. |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a farmhouse, taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department and used to illustrate the dangers of a cluttered room.... |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A woman stooping to remove an electrical cord from in front of a vacuum cleaner. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A girl holding a long coat or blanket, a broom, and a dustpan while descending a flight of stairs at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | View from above of an open drawer revealing sharp knives mixed in with other kitchen utensils. |
| Date: | 04 23 1926 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress, hat, and stockings uses a mop and bucket to wash a damaged wooden porch attached to a farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A metal sanitary garbage pail attaches underneath the kitchen sink and pipes at the farmhouse of Miss Lella Gaddis. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A woman carrying two metal buckets full of water away from a well pump near the porch of a farm house. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Clothing hanging on a clothesline strung between a farmhouse and two small farm buildings. Corn and other crops are planted around the farmhouse. |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Betz ironing a skirt on a wall-mounted foldout ironing board. A radiator is along the wall near a sink, and a wooden chair is on the right. |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | A broom, dustpan, and a duster hanging in a cleaning supply closet at the top of a staircase in the house of Adolph Betz. |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Rags, discarded shoes, empty bottles and food cans littering the space surrounding a rear entrance to a farmhouse. |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Waggoner using a Coffield electric washing machine and wringer to launder clothing on International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm (Harvester ... |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Guener washing dishes while sitting on a stool attached to a sink in J.O. Waggoner's home. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing an apron is standing near a wheeled butler's tray while drying dishes in a kitchen. A sink, table, chair and utensils are behind her. |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. J.E. Waggoner passing plaid fabric through a wringer after using an electric washing machine. A washboard is hanging on the wall in the background, an... |
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