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Farm Laborers with Reaper

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Description: A crew of farm laborers taking a break from harvesting wheat while a young woman is offering food and drinks. They are posing in front of a reaper with the...
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Family Bomb Shelter

Date: 1952
Description: A Wisconsin family inside their new bomb shelter.
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Cooking Classes at Hillside Home School

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Description: Students in cooking class at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school, operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Lemonade Stand

Date: 07 1967
Description: Several young boys selling fruit drinks, penny candy, and snow cones to parched pedestrians. A city bus is in the background.
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Italian Woman Preparing Sarsa

Date: 1941
Description: Loretta Falci (Lorenzina Fiocco Falci), an Italian woman, preparing sarsa, tomato paste on boards on the porch of her home, 622 Milton Street, as she holds...
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Girls Domestic Science Class

Date: 1909
Description: A class of girls learn how to set a table in domestic science class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Family at Dining Table

Date: 1890
Description: Family gathered at the dining table.
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Indian Infant on Cradleboard

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Description: Illustration of an Indian baby on a cradleboard propped up between two Indian women.
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Bath Time

Date: 05 08 1955
Description: A boy in the bath tub being bathed by his mother.
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Washing Dishes

Date: 05 08 1955
Description: Mother and daughter washing dishes together.
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Ojibwa Lodge

Date: 1906
Description: Ojibwa chief's lodge from Lac Courte Orielles Reservation set up at the 1906 Wisconsin State Fair. Note both reed and bark coverings on the lodge. A number...
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Tea Party

Date: 05 05 1963
Description: Mother pouring tea for her twins at the mother and daughter tea, sponsored by the Brookfield Woman's Club.
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Infant with Grandmother

Date: 1950
Description: A young child examines a children's book with her grandmother.
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Children's Picnic at the Beach

Date: 1950
Description: Woman with children grilling hot dogs and wieners at the beach.
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Gathering at Large Picnic

Date: 08 08 1914
Description: View of men, women and children sitting on benches near picnic tables set out under trees.
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Farm Hazard: Keep Fingers Away from Sewing Machine

Date: 07 17 1926
Description: Staged scene of a woman sewing with a young child attempting to help. This photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Depart...
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Unitarian Church's Work Day

Date: 1950
Description: People gather around a table of food for the First Unitarian Society's "Work Day". The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and some of the construc...
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Mother and Children with Typewriter

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Description: A woman and two small boys are sitting at a typewriter in the kitchen.
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Crocheting Doilies

Date: 04 17 1957
Description: A Girl Scout crocheting doilies at a senior citizens' care center with her "adoptive grandmother."
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Family Night Watching the Tube

Date: 09 30 1967
Description: A woman sits with her ten children surrounding her and watches TV.

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