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Fairlawn Hotel

Date: 1910
Description: View looking south inside a guest room at 'Fairlawn' Hotel (?). The room features tables, chairs, and decorative items above a fireplace. Published by Ye...
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Bakery Panorama

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Description: Wide angle view of the interior of a bakery, with one man standing by the oven on the right and another man standing near the center between racks of bread...
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Woman Using Electric Washing Machine

Date: 06 1923
Description: Mrs. J.E. Waggoner passing plaid fabric through a wringer after using an electric washing machine. A washboard is hanging on the wall in the background, an...
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Children in Tenement Section

Date: 1923
Description: Children joining hands while playing in an alleyway between brick buildings in an area of tenement housing. A line of laundry suspended over the alley is h...
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Self-Wringing Mop

Date: 1923
Description: Mrs. Jake George standing on a wooden porch while using a foot pedal to wring excess water from a mop.
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Woman Peeling Potaoes

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Description: A seated woman peeling potatoes. Two buckets are on the floor in front of her and she is wearing a striped apron.
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Gund's Brewery, La Crosse

Date: 1890
Description: A large group of Brewery workers posing outside of Gund's Brewery in La Crosse. In the front of the group two men are seated at a table with a large stein ...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Bike Hosteling Scrapbook: Wiener Roasts

Date: 07 18 1940
Description: Page from the log book of bike hosteling trips sponsored by Neighborhood House. Trip participants were Anita Genna, Florence Quartuccio, Lily Caruso, Franc...
Photograph

Martin K. Dahl House

Date: 1885
Description: Martin K. Dahl, far left, sits with three women around a table which has been set in front of an iron fence which encloses a manicured yard. Two of the wom...
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Dining Room in the McCormick Works Club House

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view of the dining room. Tables and chairs are set up in the large room which has a vaulted ceiling, with chandeliers hanging from the cross brace...
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Dining Room in the McCormick Works Club House

Date: 1900
Description: View of the back of the dining room towards an open balcony above a brick wall. There are rows of chairs set up on the balcony. The dining room has a vault...
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Employees Dining at the McCormick Works Club House

Date: 1905
Description: View of mostly male, and a few female employees, dining in the Dining Hall of the McCormick Works Club House. In the background is the stage. Numbered wood...
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Dining Room in the McCormick Works Club House

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view of dining room. Rows of tables are set with napkins in drinking glasses and mugs. Flags are hanging over the windows on the left and along th...
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Dining Room in the McCormick Works Club House

Date: 1905
Description: Interior view of dining room. Rows of tables are set with napkins in drinking glasses and mugs, and baskets of bread. Flags hang over the windows on the ri...
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Benham Fall Festival

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Description: Quilts on display at Benham. Benham, Kentucky was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers employed in the mines of its subsidia...
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Gladys Krause Washing Windows

Date: 03 13 1979
Description: A woman is leaning out over the top of a double-hung window in order to wash the window exterior with rags. Caption reads: "Monday brought temperatures tha...
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Weekly Food Baskets for Needy Children in Berlin

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Description: Instead of free meals, needy children receive a basket weekly with enough food to last for a week.
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Belgian Refugees

Date: 1914
Description: A Belgian refugee sitting on door sill stitching a shirt.
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Dining Room at McCormick Works

Date: 11 30 1915
Description: Interior view of rows of tables and chairs in the dining room. Along the back wall are utensils, tableware and urns on top of cabinets, and above are windo...
Postcard

Rock Springs Memorial Center

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "Rock Springs Memorial Community Center, Auditorium, Dining Room, Snack Bar." A collage of 4 images of the Community Center. One exter...

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