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| Date: | 05 07 1913 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of a woman in Ho-Chunk regalia wrapped in a blanket, with a child on her back. The child is wearing a fur hat, and the woman... |
| Date: | 11 1919 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Robert Viall operating a belt-driven cream separator. The separator is powered by an International engine. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mr. Peterson is sitting in a rocking chair reading the newspaper and smoking a pipe, while Mrs. Peterson is standing at the stove with their young son, Jam... |
| Date: | 09 22 1959 |
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| Description: | Interviewed outside a meat packing plant near Des Moines, Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev pronounced his first American hot dog to be "wonderful, but not... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Two girls mixing food in a bowl while preparing lunch at Sedan Prairie School. A poster reading: "Buy Liberty Bonds" is on the blackboard behind them, and ... |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Granere using a Maytag wringer and two metal rinsing buckets to wash clothing on the International Harvester demonstration farm. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Woman sitting outdoors at a spinning wheel, turning a large pile of wool in the foreground into yarn. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Waggoner opening a pressure cooker on a stove in a farmhouse, possibly as part of a home canning process. |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Waggoner pushing a button on an electric light switch on the wall in her farmhouse. |
| Date: | 10 1927 |
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| Description: | Woman wearing an apron and identified as Anne Jilk is posing with a can of beans to demonstrate the testing of canned food. |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. John Esche using a woodburning stove marked "Home Comfort" while preparing food. A crate holding firewood is to the right of the stove. |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Betz ironing a skirt on a wall-mounted foldout ironing board. A radiator is along the wall near a sink, and a wooden chair is on the right. |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Pages from a newspaper are scattered on a rug at the base of a rocking chair in a farmhouse living room. A radiator and bookcase are behind the chair. |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | A broom, dustpan, and a duster hanging in a cleaning supply closet at the top of a staircase in the house of Adolph Betz. |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman using a potato ricer in a farmhouse kitchen. |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman using a Dilver (fruit press) to juice fruit into a metal bowl on a tabletop. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman using a foot-pedal sewing machine while working with a piece of fraying fabric. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Clothing lies on a bed, hangs from drawers, and sits on top of a dresser in an unorganized bedroom. |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Miss Larson using a pressure kettle to cook on a wood-burning stove in a farmhouse kitchen. |
| Date: | 10 04 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress using an axe to split a log into firewood. A hand-operated washing machine is standing in the yard of a farmhouse in the background... |
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