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Women with Metal Parts at West Pullman Works

Date: 1930
Description: Three women are posing while holding metal parts manufactured at West Pullman Works.
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Women Workers at Chaney Instruments

Date: 1943
Description: A woman is using a metal rod to handle glass objects on a tray. Caption reads: "Women workers at Chaney Instruments." Another woman in the background is wo...
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Woman Throwing Out Wash Water

Date: 1925
Description: Woman dumping wash water from a metal wash basin on the back step of her farmhouse.
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Woman with Cream Separator

Date: 07 07 1925
Description: View of a woman working in a room at a dairy with a McCormick-Deering Primrose cream separator. There are metal milk cans on shelves behind her.
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Woman with Cream Separator

Date: 07 07 1925
Description: View of a woman working in a room at a dairy with a McCormick-Deering Primrose cream separator. There are metal milk cans on shelves behind her.
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Woman on Farmhouse Porch

Date: 1920
Description: A woman wearing a dress and apron washes her hands in a metal bucket set on a table on a farmhouse porch. Multiple metal pails with handles and a milk pail...
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Woman Hauling Water

Date: 1920
Description: A woman carrying two metal buckets full of water away from a well pump near the porch of a farm house.
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U.S. Mint

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Description: A view of the Coining Room, where women sit at long tables, weighing out metal. Each woman has a balance and other tools at her station. A male supervisor ...
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Woman Using Fruit Press

Date: 06 1923
Description: A woman using a Dilver (fruit press) to juice fruit into a metal bowl on a tabletop.
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Metal Scrap Drives

Date: 1914
Description: Metal collecting site located in Friedenau (Berlin). Separating pieces of iron.
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Young Woman with Cream Separator

Date: 07 07 1925
Description: A young woman wearing a dress and a pearl necklace fills a metal pail marked "School" from a cream separator. Additional milk pails are on the floor beside...
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Women Outdoors with Sod Poultry House

Date: 1925
Description: A woman uses a metal pail to feed a flock of White Wyandotte chickens near what appears to be a sod chicken coop.
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Woman with Poultry Flock

Date: 07 22 1923
Description: Chickens gathering around a woman near a poultry house (or chicken coop) as she is feeding the flock from a metal pail. A man is walking down a path in the...
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Woman Feeding Chickens

Date: 07 22 1923
Description: A woman stands outside a wooden shed while feeding a flock of chickens from a metal bucket. Several small chicken coops stand alongside the shed.
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Sitting under the Canopy in Oconto

Date: 1899
Description: Shaded by a striped canopy, three women are sitting together and smiling in the Holt family backyard. Wearing aprons, the woman on the left and the woman w...
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Woman and Child with Cream Separator

Date: 05 25 1927
Description: A woman is emptying a metal milk can into a cream separator while a girl is standing by watching. They are in a large room with a sink and a cabinet. An el...
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Polishing Aluminum

Date: 1905
Description: Women polishing aluminum items with belt-driven polishing machinery at Manitowoc Aluminum Novelty Co.
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Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Group Posing Outdoors

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Description: Three Ho-Chunk men wearing hats and a Ho-Chunk woman wrapped in a shawl are posing outdoors sitting on a bench in front of a corrugated metal building.
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Ford Trimotor Monoplane

Date: 10 20 1928
Description: Interior view from front of a Ford all-metal trimotor monoplane with ten passengers sitting inside.
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Young Women and Young Man Working in School Garden

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Description: Three young women, and one young man are working in a garden in a fenced-in corner at the V.V. school. A low, metal railing separates a strip of plants and...

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