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Filter: Subject of Domestic life
Filter: Year of 1900-1999
| 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: | 1929 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin home economics students have a tea party. |
| Date: | 11 25 1965 |
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| Description: | A man takes pleasure in the carving of the Thanksgiving turkey, with other food items in the foreground and vending machines behind him. |
| Date: | 07 07 1983 |
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| Description: | John Fitzsimmons and Barton Voegeli take a break from discing the fields to eat the birthday cake that Voegeli's wife made to celebrate the occasion. |
| Date: | 10 11 1981 |
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| Description: | Jim Niemann decorates dipped chocolates at his family's business, Niemann's Home Made Chocolate Shop. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Cooks preparing food for fellow workers with Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus. |
| Date: | 09 30 1967 |
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| Description: | A woman sits with her ten children surrounding her and watches TV. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering engines. Includes photographic illustrations of an engine powering a water pump, washing machine, and cement mixer... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Simon Overby at home in their parlor with books, family portraits, and an organ with sheet music. Mr. Overby sits in a chair with a cane and a... |
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