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| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Betty Sullivan, a Red Cross worker, serves coffee in the interrogation room at Kobler Field, Saipan, for a B-29 flight crew that had just returned from a b... |
| Date: | 07 24 1960 |
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| Description: | Laundry hangs on a clothesline and blows in the wind. There are fields behind, and low hills in the distance. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Men baling hay with engine powered hay press. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Lilia Suckow, a student at Peck School, works in a tulip bed outside her house. Clothes dry on a line behind the house. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Congressman David Obey and Senator Gaylord Nelson shake hands as Joan Obey looks on. The occasion was a dinner, and a man and woman sit at a table with foo... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of one woman using a loom and another woman preparing fibers for the loom to create siding for housing. This image was taken or purchased by C... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Three women standing in a row. Two of the women are carrying food in baskets and pottery on their head. They are unclothed above the waist and wearing clot... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A woman and man grinding a variety of grain in a large stone mortar. The woman is wearing a blouse and skirt, the man is wearing white pants and is barefoo... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Three girls standing in tall grass gathering a type of grain, with a thatched house and a hill in the background. The girls wear white blouses and skirts. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A woman sitting on a beach using a loom. In her journals, Carrie often described looms and their use for making cloth for clothes, siding for houses, woven... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two girls cleaning. One is carrying a basket while another holds a large fan-shaped object which was used like a broom. The description in the lower right ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Three children, an adult, and a dog sitting outside of a thatched home. The children appear to be preparing food. All of the children are unclothed. In her... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Woman using a loom outdoors. In her journal from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) she records: "The women braid the fibres together making a crude mat of them. The t... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Group of people sitting on the ground outside of a thatched house with pottery. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | People working in a field. Beside them is a basket full of a type of food. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An American Indian woman is bending over the carcass of a young deer on the ground in a wooded area. A man, far right, is looking at the camera while holdi... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A Ho-Chunk woman with two children, a toddler who is standing, and an infant on a cradleboard, beside a long lodge (ciiserec). The lodge is covered with ca... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | On the reverse of the print is written: "Raccoon feeding at Experimental Game & Fur Farm, Poynette, Wisconsin." A pan of food is secured in a wooden trough... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Boys are roasting weiners at a stone fire ring overlooking the Chippewa River in Brunet Island State Park. A man on the far right, behind trees, is walking... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A small group is gathered on the screened porch of the Ark cottage. Anna Holt Wheeler is standing in the doorway, looking at the camera and holding a handi... |
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