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Back Porch Laundry Room

Date: 10 13 1963
Description: A housewife showing off her newly-installed laundry room.
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Woman Washing Clothes with Engine-Driven Washer

Date: 07 1927
Description: Woman washing clothes outdoors with a Dexter washing machine powered by a stationary McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 horsepower type "M" engine. Photograph taken a...
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Woman Washing Laundry in Tub

Date: 05 1923
Description: Mrs. Eshe demonstrating the washing of laundry with a washboard, ringer and tub in front of a farm house. The original caption reads: "Washing with no impr...
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Three F Laundry

Date: 06 06 1930
Description: Two women operating the Purity Sun Ray System pressing iron at Three F Steam Laundry, 731 E. Dayton Street.
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Prisoners of War Washing Clothes

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: Three German prisoners of war are scrubbing their clothes on the cement floor of their barracks at a prisoner of war camp. The prisoners are engaged in agr...
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Woman Hanging Clothes on a Line

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Description: A woman hangs laundry on a clothesline in a yard.
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Woman Ironing Clothing

Date: 1939
Description: A woman irons clothing on an ironing board in a kitchen setting. She is standing in the middle of the room, surrounded by cabinets, a sink and mirror, and ...
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Laundry Room at the Winnebago County Asylum

Date: 1930
Description: Interior view of the laundry room at the Winnebago County Asylum. Pictured are the staff, including a young boy. Some of the women are ironing articles of ...
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Laundry Room at the Winnebago County Asylum

Date: 1930
Description: Staff members and one child posing among wheeled carts in the laundry facilities at the Winnebago County Asylum. In the background are two large laundry ma...
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Winnebago County Asylum Laundry Room and Staff

Date: 1930
Description: Six staff members pose in the laundry room in the Winnebago County Asylum. In the room are carts of laundry and a machine on the right.
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Doing Laundry by Hand

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Description: View of a person doing laundry in metal tubs on a bench outside. The caption reads: "'The Hand Laundry' Lake Huntington, N.Y."
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Hanging the Laundry to Dry

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Description: View of two maids in aprons and bonnets hanging laundry out to dry in the yard of the Governor's Palace. The Palace can be seen in the background past tree...
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Mrs. Granere Washing Clothing

Date: 10 1923
Description: Mrs. Granere using a Maytag wringer and two metal rinsing buckets to wash clothing on the International Harvester demonstration farm.
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Woman Washing Clothing

Date: 1925
Description: A woman wearing a dress and apron is using an "Easy Model H" wringer washing machine made by the Syracuse Washer Corporation.
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Washing Clothes in the Yard

Date: 1915
Description: View across wooded yard towards a woman leaning over a washtub using a washboard and to wash sheets. Sheets are drying on a clothesline and a washtub of bo...
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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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Woman and Child with Electric Washer

Date: 1931
Description: A woman and a girl are using an electric washing machine to clean clothing or bedsheets in a basement. The machine is powered by a DELCO-Light Plant system...
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Woman Using Washing Machine and Wringer

Date: 10 1923
Description: Mrs. Waggoner using a Coffield electric washing machine and wringer to launder clothing on International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm (Harvester ...
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Mrs. Granere with Maytag Washer

Date: 10 1923
Description: Mrs. Granere starting a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine in order to power a Maytag washer.
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Woman with Engine-Powered Washing Machine

Date: 10 1923
Description: Mrs. Granere using a washing machine powered by a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm (Harveste...

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