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Dear Valentine

Date: 1925
Description: Valentine's Day card with a boy pumping water while a girl is scrubbing a heart in a tub. He is wearing a blue outfit and she is wearing a lacy blouse. A s...
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Man Posing by Shoeshine Stand

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Description: An African American man wearing a hat, shirt, open vest, trousers, and boots, posing by a shoeshine stand in front of a commercial building.
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Three Men in a Shoeshine Shop

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Description: Two African American men working in a shoeshine shop. The younger man is shining the shoes of a white customer who is sitting in one of the chairs on the e...
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O.E. Fitch & Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of O.E. Fitch & Company, "Hatters and Gents' Furnishers," of Madison, Wisconsin, with a man's long-sleeved shirt with a banded collar, front pla...
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O'Neil Oil & Paint Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the O'Neil Oil & Paint Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, manufacturers of oils, paints, chemicals, and other supplies for tanneries and laundr...
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Car Wash

Date: 1930
Description: View of a man wearing an apron washing an automobile up on a lift.
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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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Alford Brothers Laundry

Date: 1921
Description: View from street looking towards the facade of the Alford Brothers Laundry located at 113-115 Carroll Street. This was a large business with twenty-five em...
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Woman with Bucket and Broom

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Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype full-length portrait of an unidentified young woman standing, facing left, holding a broom partially inside a bucket draped w...
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Laundry in the Lake

Date: 1914
Description: Howard and Jack Greene doing laundry in Lake McFarland.
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Laundry

Date: 1910
Description: Bill Marr, on the left, and Howard "Dad" Greene washing their clothes with soap on a rock by the lake.

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