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| Date: | 12 1937 |
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| Description: | In the market at Misurata, Libya, a desert Bedouin washing clothes. |
| Date: | 2010 |
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| Description: | Goodyear employee washing storefront windows as three people and a dog are walking by. A dog can be seen mirrored in the window. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Ashley Bennett ("Cookie") who volunteered his services during the float, and the cook Mike Lane, on the Arpin fleet of lumber rafts. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Child's Valentine's Day card. A girl is taking a bath in a wooden tub full of bubbles with a towel held in front of her. A large heart is in the background... |
| Date: | 09 24 1953 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Spic and Span dry cleaning store in the new Madison East Shopping Center on East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 06 1967 |
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| Description: | Composite panoramic view of the north side of the 500 block of State Street. Business include: The Towers (student apartments), Pantorium Dry Cleaners, The... |
| Date: | 11 07 1953 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters standing on the roof of Quality Service Laundry at 1202 Regent Street as smoke is billowing out from below. |
| Date: | 12 07 1953 |
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| Description: | Onlookers are standing in the street as a fire burns at Quality Service Laundry, 1202 Regent Street, showing the corner of Regent and Charter Streets. |
| Date: | 03 18 1925 |
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| Description: | A man loads a bag of laundry onto the back of an International Model S truck owned by the Sanitary Wet Wash Laundry. The truck is parked in front of the co... |
| Date: | 06 1967 |
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| Description: | Composite panoramic view of the south side of the 500 block of State Street. Businesses include: (on Gilman Street) Wolf Kubley and Hirsig Toys, Hair House... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | A washing machine run by a windmill in Ulithi. Behind the large propellers of the machine is a sign that says: "The Padre's washing machine---Cleanliness i... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the International Harvester Company branch house building in Jackson, Michigan. The brick building was located at the intersection of two ... |
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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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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 1978 |
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| Description: | View of a downtown street featuring bars, restaurants, and a laundromat. |
| Date: | 08 1967 |
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| Description: | Mike Zitke, 14, of 4737 N. 78th Court holding a broom and wearing a shirt reading "We like it here. Milwaukee: Let's keep it clean." Zitke received the shi... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a man loading bags of laundry into the back of an International D-Line Metro truck owned by Troy Laundry parked along the curb i... |
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| Description: | Interior view of Yep Sing's Chinese Laundry. Clothing is hanging on a line and Yep Sing (second from left), Anna Erickson (center), and Carrie Aldra (right... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of a man wearing an apron washing an automobile up on a lift. |
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