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Margery Bish Hanging Clothes on Clothesline

Date: 1890
Description: Margery Bish as a little girl. She is wearing a striped dress while hanging clothes on a clothesline. There is a doll behind her on the right.
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Nursery School Group

Date: 07 14 1933
Description: Five children are washing dishes at the Dorothy Roberts nursery school at the University of Wisconsin Home Economics practice cottage.
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Girl Washing Doll Clothes

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop showing Bertha Gesell washing and hanging doll clothes.
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Dear Valentine

Date: 1925
Description: Valentine's Day card with a boy pumping water while a girl is scrubbing a heart in a tub. He is wearing a blue outfit and she is wearing a lacy blouse. A s...
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It's Time To Come "Clean" and Be My Valentine!

Date: 1955
Description: Child's Valentine's Day card. A girl is taking a bath in a wooden tub full of bubbles with a towel held in front of her. A large heart is in the background...
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International Sprayer

Date: 1910
Description: An International Harvester "sprayer" mounted on a wagon, possibly intended for pesticide application (or in this context, window washing?). The wagon is pa...
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Wash Day at Camp

Date: 1907
Description: The travelers are washing their clothes in the St. Croix River. There are a number of logs at the river's edge.
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Washing Their Car

Date: 11 17 1986
Description: A man and his son washing their car together. Caption reads: "Victor Driver, 4, helped his stepfather, Thomas Holder, wash his car Sunday on N. 13th St. as...

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