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| Description: | Woman sweeping up debris in a warehouse at International Harvester's Deering Works twine mill. The factory was owned by the Deering Harvester Company until... |
| Date: | 05 14 1937 |
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| Description: | Clerk and customer at Savidusky's cleaners, located at 113 Monona Avenue. |
| Date: | 05 17 1934 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Varsity Hand Laundry, located at 527 State Street. There are four women ironing, and several workers are standing behind them. A sign in th... |
| Date: | 04 18 1934 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Cardinal Hand Laundry, 619 State Street. Two women are ironing, while another woman is folding clothes while under the attention of their m... |
| Date: | 02 06 1934 |
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| Description: | Older woman laundry worker folding items at a table in front of industrial laundry equipment, in the laundry at Madison General Hospital. |
| Date: | 06 09 1933 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of eight Wisconsin State Capitol scrubwomen. Left to right: Mrs. Mary DeRenzo, Mrs. Elizabeth Weddig, Miss Mary McCloskey, Mrs. Ingeborg Sid... |
| Date: | 06 09 1933 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Mary DeRenzo, "Dean of the scrub women's crew" at the Wisconsin State Capitol, holding the mop she used for thirty years. |
| Date: | 06 06 1930 |
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| Description: | Two women operating the Purity Sun Ray System pressing iron at Three F Steam Laundry, 731 E. Dayton Street. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Three women (Jennie Parsons Kelly, left, and Lena Eisenback Post, center, and an unidentified woman on the right) on Main Street in front of Yep Ah Sing's ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Group of women washing clothes by hand on a pier in a river in Russia. The scene may be near Lubertzy. |
| Date: | 07 02 1947 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of American Federation of Laundry Workers Union members taken in the Colonial Room of the Hotel Loraine, 123 West Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Competitors in the Southern Wisconsin Junior Livestock Exposition washing their animals outdoors before the judging. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Poster or signboard titled: "Clean Surroundings - Helps to Make Good Citizens and a Healthful City." Seven images illustrate cleanliness at different Inter... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Industrial safety poster warning against carelessness around elevators. Includes an image of a woman scrubbing floors. |
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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: | 04 01 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. William B. (Rachel) Fisher, 733 Copeland Avenue, washing windows in the family home. A new bride, this is her first spring cleaning. |
| Date: | 04 01 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. William B. (Rachel) Fisher, 733 Copeland Avenue, assembling the cleaning products she will use during spring house cleaning. A new bride, this is her ... |
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| Description: | Interior view of Yep Sing's Chinese Laundry. Clothing is hanging on a line and Yep Sing (second from left), Anna Erickson (center), and Carrie Aldra (right... |
| Date: | 09 01 1956 |
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| Description: | Four members of the Catholic Junior League polishing a car at George's Service Station, 5990 Monona Drive during an all-girl car wash at Madison service st... |
| Date: | 03 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Roland and Winnie Delamater, who were both seriously physically handicapped by cerebral palsy since birth, hanging up the wash in their basement. The coupl... |
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