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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | The household staff (probably Swedish) for one family home, including laundresses, cooks, parlor maids, and scullery girls with their various work utensils... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Margery Bish as a little girl. She is wearing a striped dress while hanging clothes on a clothesline. There is a doll behind her on the right. |
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| Description: | Composite photograph/painting of a woman standing and pouring (fake) water into a cracked basin, with the water spilling onto the floor. |
| Date: | 05 08 1964 |
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| Description: | A waitress sets restaurant tables in anticipation of evening business. |
| Date: | 03 15 1936 |
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| Description: | Frank family banquet at the Morris L. Frank restaurant, located at 611 Chapman Street. The family were Greenbush residents. |
| Date: | 03 08 1934 |
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| Description: | Women enjoying coffee, tea and pastries at the Maple Bluff Country Club. Left to right: Mrs. Oscar Tobaas, sitting at the table, with Mrs. H. Burnham Page ... |
| Date: | 09 21 1931 |
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| Description: | Epsilon Sigma Alpha, national educational sorority, business women's dinner. Group portrait of thirteen women standing behind a dinner table. The event wa... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Group of women washing clothes by hand on a pier in a river in Russia. The scene may be near Lubertzy. |
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| Description: | Alma(?), Wis. Studio portrait of group of women seamstresses and two young children. |
| Date: | 10 01 1952 |
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| Description: | Margaret E. Garnett (Mrs. A.C.), of Madison, program chair of the convention, and Mrs. Linus Boehm of West Salem, president of the state federation, cuttin... |
| Date: | 09 13 1955 |
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| Description: | Three board members of the Who's New Club lunching at Blackhawk Country Club, Shorewood Hills. Left to right: Virginia Mansfield, Lois Cardinal, and Shirle... |
| Date: | 12 17 1955 |
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| Description: | A woman and two men at the refreshment table at the Blackhawk Country Club Christmas party. |
| Date: | 06 30 1957 |
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| Description: | Nancy Waterman unsuccessfully pours milk for Harriet Anderson (whose name has since changed to Penny Hilley) at the Wonder Spot. |
| Date: | 01 31 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Journal correspondents, staff members, and guests attending the annual conference of correspondents in the Park Hotel. |
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| Description: | A woman washes clothes in a tub on the back steps of a farmhouse. In the background, clothes hang on a clothesline. |
| Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of five seated members of the Madison branch of Letter Carriers (#508) being served a pot luck supper in their honor by seven women at the GA... |
| Date: | 02 22 1949 |
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| Description: | Seated at the speakers table at the Dane County Rural Letter Carriers' meeting (left to right), are: Earl Bagley, Cambridge, treasurer; R.C. Salisbury, Mad... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two young Ho-Chunk women and a Ho-Chunk infant. The woman on the left is wearing regalia and the woman on... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two young Ho-Chunk women and a Ho-Chunk infant. The woman sitting on the left is wearing rega... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| 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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