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| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Truck driver washing clothes at an American Oil Company truck stop. |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | A woman and her three-year-old daughter are getting glasses of milk from a container in a refrigerator. The mother is dressed in a pant suit, while her dau... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of six women wearing aprons learning domestic skills in a kitchen classroom. Two women on the left stand at a sink washing dishes, t... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A man stands in a kitchen, while a woman on the far right of the frame looks on. The building is a Freedom House used by civil rights volunteers. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Demonstration booth in the Women's Building at the Wisconsin State Fair, showing electrical kitchen equipment. |
| Date: | 10 30 1959 |
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| Description: | Frank E. Nordeen, a state engineering employee, pointing to the main electric switchboard in the State Capitol building basement, while standing next to an... |
| Date: | 02 1948 |
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| Description: | View of the new home economics department kitchen. Zelma Purchase is at the range and Priscilla Cobb is standing at the sink. |
| Date: | 01 16 1958 |
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| Description: | Dinner and children's menu from Goff's Restaurant, with two illustrations of a woman in an apron filling a coffee cup: in the one accompanying 1893, when t... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Features at the top a black and white illustration of a woman standing and using a pump machine at a counter. Cut reads: "Pumps for House & Farm." The bott... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Home economics students (all women) dressed in aprons, dresses, and hats, stand in rows at counters tending pots at the Winnebago County School of Agricult... |
| Date: | 11 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Roy J. Nelson, 145 Marquette Street, is shown using a "floyve" stick to turn the lefsa while it bakes. She and her two sisters gathered at one of thei... |
| Date: | 03 1955 |
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| Description: | Three ladies are standing in the kitchen while preparing the luncheon for those attending a planning meeting for the upcoming Dane County health survey. Sh... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A woman is stirring a pot on what looks like a new stove. It is a gleaming Acme, from Newark Stove Works. There is a warming closet in the top half. The ca... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Alfred Lunt coring tomatoes in the kitchen at Ten Chimneys. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Alfred Lunt stands at the edge of a table holding a beverage, near Lynn Fontanne who is sitting, in the kitchen of the cottage at their Ten Chimneys estate... |
| Date: | 08 04 1961 |
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| Description: | Doris, left, and Helen Saalsaa working together preparing dinner in their ultra-modern kitchen, which they designed for two cooks. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Color-Keyed Door Handles for International Harvester Refrigerators. Text includes the line "they're femineered!" |
| Date: | 05 11 1965 |
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| Description: | Donna Osness with two of her daughters, preparing dinner for her family. One of a series of images about Donna, a mother of five children, who is participa... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | International Harvester Decorator Refrigerator advertisement featured in the Saturday Evening Post, Better Homes and Gardens, and Ladies' ... |
| Date: | 10 07 1965 |
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| Description: | Probably a portrait of Mrs. MacLean in her kitchen, taken for the "Wisconsin State Journal" cookbook section published Oct. 17, 1965. |
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