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| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Women preparing food for an annual Norwegian church supper at the Trinity Lutheran Church. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A young child examines a children's book with her grandmother. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman poses her kitchen with all of the modern conveniences. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Women feed and rock newborn babies in a neonatal hospital unit. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Woman demonstrating a new space-saving Westinghouse washer/dryer unit. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Women office workers file and take phone calls in a busy shared work space. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Hospital or nursing home patients are able to view television in their rooms. |
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| Description: | A woman shows how her variety of pots and pans are stored on a sliding rack under the oven in her kitchen. |
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| Description: | A young woman wearing a formal gown and mink stole looks at a portrait of a woman while sitting on a couch, as if waiting to go out for the evening. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman writes a note at a small writing desk in her kitchen. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Spiritualists in Wonewoc, Wisconsin, are setting controls for medium Earl H. Williams by tying his arms and taping his mouth prior to a "levitation exhibit... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Madison Mayor, George Forrester, seated in the front row of the audience at the Ringling Brothers Circus. Clowns entertain the children seated near Forrest... |
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| Description: | Woman wearing a hairnet and an apron fills a pasty in her kitchen. A man wearing coveralls is seated at the table watching. |
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| Description: | Woman wearing an apron in an industrial kitchen and preparing a large pot of lutefisk possibly for a Syttende Mai celebration. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | 100-year-old woman, a resident of Muscoda, Wis., sitting at a table, stirring a cup of coffee (?). Newsphoto for the Wisconsin State Journal. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | The Brooklyn Grange parade float in a Labor Day parade. Men and women on the float mimic various household and recreational activities. |
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