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| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Two women are standing at a table in a kitchen, with one woman drying a dish, and the other washing dishes in a large bowl. Dishes and pans are stacked on ... |
| Date: | 01 10 1961 |
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| Description: | One in a series of photographs of four U.W. physics graduate students who are renting a furnished home at 429 Russell Walk. In this photograph Brandt Kehoe... |
| Date: | 07 1970 |
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| Description: | Linda Luna of Auraura, Illinois washes clothes at a basin outside a cabin in a migrant worker camp in Door County. Several articles of clothing are lying i... |
| Date: | 09 20 1960 |
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| Description: | Carol and Dick Baumann do a lot of their household tasks together so that they will have more leisure time to spend with their baby daughter and in sharing... |
| Date: | 04 24 1958 |
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| Description: | Kathleen Russell, right, Iowa County home agent, with Mrs. John Harrison looking at draperies made by her for her new home. |
| Date: | 04 24 1958 |
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| Description: | Kathleen Russell, Iowa County home agent, left, meeting with Mrs. Milton Leix, Cobb, president of the county homemakers organization. |
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| Description: | Ektachrome postcard of a mannequin of a women wearing period dress ironing in the summer kitchen. Dried corn is strung up near the ceiling. Text on reve... |
| Date: | 05 16 1923 |
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| Description: | Woman washing clothes outdoors in a yard with a washing machine powered by a McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 H.P. engine. |
| Date: | 01 11 1934 |
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| Description: | Amanda Maisch being honored for her 20th anniversary as Janitress at Madison Central High School. Sitting L to R: Elsie Kind, mathematics; Amanda Maisch; E... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View from the lake of Miss Ransom washing clothes by hand, using lake water. Beside her on the pier is an enamel metal wash bowl. Archibald Lake is in the ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Standing on the pier, Jeannette Holt is doing laundry by hand, using the washboard in an iron bucket that is sitting on the diving board. Archibald Lake an... |
| Date: | 04 24 1957 |
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| Description: | Russell Mitchell and his wife, 411 W. Dean Avenue, discuss spring cleaning chores. He is on the ground beneath a window that she is leaning out of with a d... |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of two women cleaning a bathroom, with a caption that reads: "You Can Rub and Scrub And Scrub and Rub — But You Can't Get Clean... |
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| Description: | Laundry time at "Trees for Tomorrow, Inc." Two women are doing the laundry at a "Trees for Tomorrow, Inc." camp. Items are hanging on a clothesline behind ... |
| Date: | 02 17 1981 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of a man hanging clothes on a clothesline, while holding a clothespin in his mouth. Snow is on the ground. Caption reads: "LIFE IS A BREEZE —... |
| Date: | 03 13 1979 |
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| Description: | A woman is leaning out over the top of a double-hung window in order to wash the window exterior with rags. Caption reads: "Monday brought temperatures tha... |
| Date: | 11 04 1983 |
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| Description: | A woman is washing several windows that are leaning against the side of a building. Front of image is captioned: "Joyce Rhoades of Merrillan, WI. washed st... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A woman is standing at a sink in a kitchen; next to it is a dishwasher. Behind her is a cooking range. Caption on rear of photograph reads: "Mrs. Chas. Mea... |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of an unidentified man and two women posing standing on the porch of a wooden house. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Young man and a dog in the yard outside a dilapidated shack in the woods that serves as a dwelling. Laundry hangs from a line at left. |
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