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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An International Harvester "sprayer" mounted on a wagon, possibly intended for pesticide application (or in this context, window washing?). The wagon is pa... |
| Date: | 09 29 1913 |
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| Description: | A woman with a broom is standing behind a large piece of twine machinery and is cleaning it with a broom. The woman is dressed in a smock and hat. Behind h... |
| Date: | 09 29 1913 |
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| Description: | A woman is crouching next to a large piece of twine machinery cleaning it. The woman is dressed in a smock and hat. Behind her the room is filled with mach... |
| Date: | 12 26 1943 |
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| Description: | Mopping up after the bombardment of Cape Gloucester while the American cruiser returns to base are: (left to right, all shirtless) Seaman 2nd Class Dominic... |
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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... |
| Date: | 06 29 1961 |
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| Description: | Madison Inn employee Allen Wheeler using a window-washing brush attached to 60-foot long handle with a thin hose which carries soap and water threaded thro... |
| Date: | 06 29 1961 |
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| Description: | Madison Inn employee Allen Wheeler using a window-washing brush attached to 60-foot long handle with a thin hose which carries soap and water threaded thro... |
| Date: | 06 29 1961 |
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| Description: | Madison Inn employee Allen Wheeler uses a window-washing brush attached to 60-foot long handle with a thin hose which carries soap and water threaded throu... |
| Date: | 09 15 1964 |
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| Description: | Mothers of new seminarians volunteer to wash windows at the new Holy Name Seminary located at 702 S. High Point Road in Madison. The mothers came from Dioc... |
| Date: | 04 21 1965 |
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| Description: | Professional painters inside the state capitol employed by Hoffer's Certified Paint of 3501 E. Washington Avenue. A paint can is labeled "Hoffer One Coat H... |
| Date: | 05 27 1965 |
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| Description: | The seminarians at Holy Name Seminary learn that the dignity of manual labor is an important lesson for aspirants to the priesthood. Here Tom Colt, Madison... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 2013 |
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| Description: | A rotating sculpture of a smiling octopus on a sign for "Octopus Car Wash." The octopus is holding a bucket, washcloths, and a squeegee in its arms. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | View from sidewalk of a man holding a bag of laundry standing near the partially open side door of an International KB-5 truck parked at a curb. The truck ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a an International KB-5 truck parked along a curb. Behind the truck is man talking to a woman at the open front door of a house.... |
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| Description: | A window washer named Art holding a cigarette and posing with his squeegee. He was a familiar sight on State Street. |
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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... |
| Date: | 03 1962 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man washing the sidewalk with a hose. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | The travelers are washing their clothes in the St. Croix River. There are a number of logs at the river's edge. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Howard and Jack Greene doing laundry in Lake McFarland. |
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