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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Woman washing clothes outdoors with a washtub, washboard, wringer, clothespins and clothesline. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Woman cleaning a wooden floor in an open doorway of her farmhouse with a scrub brush. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Young girl sitting at a table eating cereal(?) from a bowl. She also has a glass of milk and a plate with toast. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Counters and display cases show goods for sale in the General Store. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A woman stands amid a patch of squash plants and displays a large squash in Marinette County. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Marshall Neilan, the director of Don't Ever Marry (1920), and Marjorie Daw, the female lead. Original caption: "NIX ON THE FANCY FOOD, SAYS MARSHA... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A slice of frosted cake rests on a plate atop a cloth-covered table, along with a glass, knife, additional plates, and a wrinkled cloth napkin. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of a sink installed in a corner in a washroom at School #9. A mirror, towel rack, framed picture, and a row of mugs hang from walls surrounding the si... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Exeter Inn with guests dining outdoors under trees. Built in 1932, the hotel's Georgian facade features a doorway and an awning under which tab... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A metal sanitary garbage pail attaches underneath the kitchen sink and pipes at the farmhouse of Miss Lella Gaddis. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Mrs. John Bowers removing a plate of food from the dumbwaiter in her Benton County 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: | Pots, kitchen utensils, and two irons sitting on the stove of a wood-burning oven. A framed painting and a dustpan hang on the wall in the background. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing an apron and a hairnet standing at a counter while using a hoop strainer to make cheese(?). She is using another metal utensil to press whe... |
| 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: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a uniform and cloth hat is siftting flour into a bowl in a kitchen. Her dress has buttoned-on cuffs on the sleeves. The table in front of h... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a uniform and cloth hat is kneading bread dough on a board on a wooden table. Her dress has buttoned-on cuffs on the sleeves. A flour sifte... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Girls sitting around a long table while embroidering white cloth stretched through embroidery hoops. A woman, probably an instructor, is standing at left. ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Two girls are sitting at a table outdoors while a boy is offering them sandwiches from a plate during an etiquette lesson. |
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