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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: | 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: | 05 24 1959 |
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| Description: | Mrs. E.J. Wirka is shown hosing down her car in preparation for a spring washing. |
| 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: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Competitors in the Southern Wisconsin Junior Livestock Exposition washing their animals outdoors before the judging. |
| 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 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: | 05 02 1989 |
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| Description: | In the left foreground a woman is leaning on a fence while watching three people cleaning a half empty pool. Caption reads: "About 50 members of the Letter... |
| Date: | 03 13 1979 |
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| Description: | A woman is leaning out over the top of a double-hung window in order to wash the window exterior with rags. Caption reads: "Monday brought temperatures tha... |
| Date: | 09 15 1964 |
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| Description: | Mothers of new seminarians volunteer to wash windows at the new Holy Name Seminary located at 702 S. High Point Road in Madison. The mothers came from Dioc... |
| 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... |
| 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: | 11 19 1936 |
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| Description: | Night view of the Madison Theatre at 111 Monona Avenue. Two women are in the box office. The marquee reads "Premiere Opening Day." Jimmy Dodge's restaurant... |
| 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 ... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Ingeborg Sidwell wearing a patterned scarf, tied under her chin, a dark coat and eyeglasses. In 1943, she was working at the Wis... |
| 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... |
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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... |
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| Early household dishwasher manufactured by Hydro-Electric Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, c. 1930. (Museum object #1997.35.1A-D) |
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