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Savidusky 's Cleaners Plant

Date: 05 14 1937
Description: Three men pressing garments at Savidusky's Cleaners plant, 827 E. Washington Avenue.
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High School Student War Work

Date: 09 21 1944
Description: Two high school students working at the Quality Service Laundry. From left: Bonnie Warren, and Donna Wolfe, both seniors at West High. These students divid...
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Spring House Cleaning

Date: 04 01 1949
Description: Mrs. William B. (Rachel) Fisher, 733 Copeland Avenue, washing windows in the family home. A new bride, this is her first spring cleaning.
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Spring House Cleaning

Date: 04 01 1949
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 ...
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Ingeborg Sidwell

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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...
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Holy Name Seminary

Date: 05 27 1965
Description: The seminarians at Holy Name Seminary learn that the dignity of manual labor is an important lesson for aspirants to the priesthood. Here Tom Colt, Madison...
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Art the Window Washer

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Description: A window washer named Art holding a cigarette and posing with his squeegee. He was a familiar sight on State Street.

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