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Domestic Staff with Work Utensils

Date: 1890
Description: The household staff (probably Swedish) for one family home, including laundresses, cooks, parlor maids, and scullery girls with their various work utensils...
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Two Women with Cleaning Implements

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Description: Two women are standing on the small porch outside an open kitchen door, near implements used for daily household tasks such as washing, scrubbing, sweeping...
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Mother and Children Decorating Christmas Bread

Date: 12 05 1956
Description: Anne De Witt, 5502 Tolman Terrace, is being helped by her daughter Maureen De Witt, 4, to decorate Christmas bread while her other daughter, Beth De Witt, ...
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Making Tortillas

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Description: View of four women and five children posing outside of a thatch-roofed home. Work tables and a barrel tub are gathered in front of the building and one wom...
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Outdoor Portrait of Children

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Description: Outdoor portrait of five children and various dolls in front of a small wooden structure or cabin. A boy is standing on the left side, holding the handle t...
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Young Women Posing with Household Implements

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of seven European American women. Four of them are posing standing and three are posing sitting, with an inf...
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Sleeping Child in Highchair

Date: 1913
Description: James is sleeping while sitting in a highchair. There is a bowl and spoon on the tray.

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