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Woman Broiling Hamburger

Date: 1950
Description: An apron-clad woman broiling hamburgers in the kitchen.
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Kitchen Interior

Date: 1910
Description: Woman baking in a large kitchen with lean-to pantry and a wood-burning stove. The sconces or reflectors on the kerosene lamps intensified the light.
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Cooking Classes at Hillside Home School

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Description: Students in cooking class at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school, operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Lumber Camp

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Description: Elevated view of lumber camp with loggers posing in front of a train loaded with logs.
Poster

Machines Agricoles & Ficelle Deering

Date: 09 25 1925
Description: Advertising calendar for Deering brand farm machinery showing a French woman in a field with a basket and tilling tool. Printed by H. Brun, Paris, France.
Poster

Lily Cream Separators Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for Lily brand cream separators featuring a color illustration of a woman operating a hand crank cream separator. Below is a scene of co...
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Industrial Divisions-Packinghouse Workers

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Description: Men and women packing poultry at the Home Packing Company.
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Grocery Store

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Description: A woman is being waited on by a man standing behind the counter of a grocery store. Canned goods are stacked on shelves along the wall behind the counter.
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Woman Pumping Water from Farm Well

Date: 04 1923
Description: A bundled-up woman hand pumps water from a well into a pail. The ground is covered with ice and snow. Two cars and a farmhouse are in the background.
Photograph

Woman in Kitchen

Date: 
Description: Composite photograph/painting of a woman standing and pouring (fake) water into a cracked basin, with the water spilling onto the floor.
Print

The Slide

Date: 1880
Description: Engraving for "Peterson's Magazine" of women in maids' uniforms sliding down an icy path in the snow.
Photograph

Female Worker Operates Stub Lathe

Date: 10 01 1945
Description: Female worker using a stub lathe to turn, face, groove and "chamfer" chain-tightener sprockets at International Harvester's East Moline Works. The sprocket...
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Female Worker at Osborne Works Twine Mill

Date: 1910
Description: Female worker posing in protective apron and sleeves in front of a painted backdrop at International Harvester's Osborne Twine Mill. The Osborne Works was ...
Photograph

Baking Hazelnut Torte

Date: 05 05 1964
Description: A woman wearing an apron preparing a hazelnut torte from a prized recipe.
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Community Polio Vaccine

Date: 
Description: Tables are set up at a City Hall basement lobby as a venue for public access to the polio vaccine.
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Women Sewing Canvas Folds at McCormick Works

Date: 07 22 1936
Description: Female workers sewing canvas side folds on binder aprons at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The McCormick Works was built by Cyrus McCormick in ...
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Waitress Tending Table in McCormick Works Club House

Date: 06 19 1907
Description: Waitress tending a table in the dining room of the McCormick Works Club House.
Photograph

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1901
Description: Cover of a German language advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover's color illustration features a woman with a rake watching a ...
Photograph

Milwaukee Road Service Club Party

Date: 12 02 1945
Description: Milwaukee Road Service Club family party at E.R.A. Hall, with seven male officers in line being served food by three women, with a small boy looking on.
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Shopping at Kroger's

Date: 07 1943
Description: A woman shopping in the meat department at the Kroger store at Union Corners, 2541 Winnebago Street. She is there to promote the wartime Oscar Mayer Health...

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