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| Date: | 10 13 1963 |
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| Description: | A housewife showing off her newly-installed laundry room. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | Woman washing clothes outdoors with a Dexter washing machine powered by a stationary McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 horsepower type "M" engine. Photograph taken a... |
| 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 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: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Laundry room at the State Public School, with large range equipment featured. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Sinks, tubs, and cylindrical washing machines on pulleys make up the laundry facilities at the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Heal... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Front view of G.W. Peck's Store. The ground is covered with snow. The signs on the building read "Globe Steam Laundry" and the text below the photograph re... |
| Date: | 03 31 1953 |
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| Description: | A modern kitchen including a breakfast bar with four three legged stools and a youth chair, and the laundry room with the washer, dryer and mangle. |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Three German prisoners of war are scrubbing their clothes on the cement floor of their barracks at a prisoner of war camp. The prisoners are engaged in agr... |
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| Description: | A woman hangs laundry on a clothesline in a yard. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | View from Bascom Hill of building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A woman irons clothing on an ironing board in a kitchen setting. She is standing in the middle of the room, surrounded by cabinets, a sink and mirror, and ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the laundry room at the Winnebago County Asylum. Pictured are the staff, including a young boy. Some of the women are ironing articles of ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Staff members and one child posing among wheeled carts in the laundry facilities at the Winnebago County Asylum. In the background are two large laundry ma... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Six staff members pose in the laundry room in the Winnebago County Asylum. In the room are carts of laundry and a machine on the right. |
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| Description: | View of a person doing laundry in metal tubs on a bench outside. The caption reads: "'The Hand Laundry' Lake Huntington, N.Y." |
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| Description: | View of two maids in aprons and bonnets hanging laundry out to dry in the yard of the Governor's Palace. The Palace can be seen in the background past tree... |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Granere using a Maytag wringer and two metal rinsing buckets to wash clothing on the International Harvester demonstration farm. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress and apron is using an "Easy Model H" wringer washing machine made by the Syracuse Washer Corporation. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Clothing hanging on a clothesline strung between a farmhouse and two small farm buildings. Corn and other crops are planted around the farmhouse. |
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