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View of 300 Block of State Street

Date: 1930
Description: View of Savidusky's Dye House Company, State, Paint and Paper Company, Schadauer's China Shop, a drygoods store and Chop Suey Restaurant. The view also inc...
Photograph

Laundry in the Lake

Date: 1914
Description: Howard and Jack Greene doing laundry in Lake McFarland.
Photograph

Arab Laundry

Date: 12 1937
Description: In the market at Misurata, Libya, a desert Bedouin washing clothes.
Photograph

Laundry

Date: 1910
Description: Bill Marr, on the left, and Howard "Dad" Greene washing their clothes with soap on a rock by the lake.
Print

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...
Photograph

Clothesline

Date: 07 24 1960
Description: Laundry hangs on a clothesline and blows in the wind. There are fields behind, and low hills in the distance.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Man Posing by Shoeshine Stand

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Description: An African American man wearing a hat, shirt, open vest, trousers, and boots, posing by a shoeshine stand in front of a commercial building.
Photograph

Windmill Washing Machine

Date: 03 1945
Description: A washing machine run by a windmill in Ulithi. Behind the large propellers of the machine is a sign that says: "The Padre's washing machine---Cleanliness i...
Photograph

Window Washer

Date: 2010
Description: Goodyear employee washing storefront windows as three people and a dog are walking by. A dog can be seen mirrored in the window.
Photograph

Three Men in a Shoeshine Shop

Date: 
Description: Two African American men working in a shoeshine shop. The younger man is shining the shoes of a white customer who is sitting in one of the chairs on the e...
Photograph

Mopping Up After Bombardment

Date: 12 26 1943
Description: Mopping up after the bombardment of Cape Gloucester while the American cruiser returns to base are: (left to right, all shirtless) Seaman 2nd Class Dominic...
Historical Essay

Early Electric Dishwasher

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Early household dishwasher manufactured by Hydro-Electric Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, c. 1930. (Museum object #1997.35.1A-D)

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