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| Description: | Advertisement for International Harvester refrigerators and freezers. Depicts a woman wearing an apron over a dress standing near a freezer and refrigerato... |
| Date: | 03 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Woman stirring the contents of an Osterizer blender that is sitting on the stove. |
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| Description: | Laurie and Muriel Peterson, children of the photographer, use a high chair to talk on the phone. |
| Date: | 02 27 1984 |
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| Description: | A sixth grade class dresses up as cave people to experience the likeness of living in pre-historic times. |
| Date: | 08 12 1958 |
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| Description: | Urbane gentleman shows off his sophisticated high fidelity wall system with reel-to-reel tape deck, reels of tape, and record albums. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman poses her kitchen with all of the modern conveniences. |
| Date: | 07 17 1926 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Counters and display cases show goods for sale in the General Store. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| 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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| Description: | A woman and two small boys are sitting at a typewriter in the kitchen. |
| Date: | 02 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Decorative wood sewing machine cabinet. |
| Date: | 08 02 1933 |
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| Description: | Melvina (Mrs. Samuel) Capron, 222 N. Bassett Street, listening to a radio and reenacting the night in 1923 when she heard that President Warren G. Harding ... |
| Date: | 12 08 1932 |
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| Description: | Large group of women sewing for the Red Cross at St. John's Lutheran Church, 322 East Washington Avenue. Shows a woman sitting behind a sewing machine on t... |
| Date: | 03 10 1932 |
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| Description: | Display window for A & P Special Automatic Egg Cooker (Hankscraft) "available for 98 cents with purchase of 1 dozen Sunnybrook eggs." |
| Date: | 12 20 1930 |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of Jerome C. and May Holt sitting in rockers in their living room at 1922 Madison Street. |
| Date: | 12 03 1930 |
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| Description: | View of the interior of Tiffany's dress making shop (Creators of Claire Tiffany Frocks, 546 State Street), showing women cutting and sewing dresses at long... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman writes a note at a small writing desk in her kitchen. |
| Date: | 01 13 1956 |
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| Description: | The Kern family, Edna, Nancy, Ernest, and Maribeth, at the supper table. |
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| Description: | The G. Thompson family posing in front of their wooden house. One woman is sitting at a sewing machine working on a quilt while another is working at a kn... |
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