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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Woman washing clothes outdoors with a washtub, washboard, wringer, clothespins and clothesline. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Woman dumping wash water from a metal wash basin on the back step of her farmhouse. |
| 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 1927 |
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| Description: | Backyard drive and landscaping of a house. Laundry is hanging on the line in the background on the left. |
| Date: | 04 23 1926 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress, hat, and stockings uses a mop and bucket to wash a damaged wooden porch attached to a farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A woman carrying two metal buckets full of water away from a well pump near the porch of a farm house. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 02 1915 |
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| Description: | Young African American woman sweeping front steps of a residence. Original caption reads: "the 'sedge brush' broom is used a great deal for light sweeping ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Clothing hanging on a line to dry in a farm yard. A pot of steaming water is in the foreground. A small open-sided farm building is behind a fence with a g... |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Rags, discarded shoes, empty bottles and food cans littering the space surrounding a rear entrance to a farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Children joining hands while playing in an alleyway between brick buildings in an area of tenement housing. A line of laundry suspended over the alley is h... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Jake George standing on a wooden porch while using a foot pedal to wring excess water from a mop. |
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