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Woman Pumping Water from Farmhouse Well

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Description: Woman pumping water from a well near the porch of her farmhouse.
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Woman Cleaning Wooden Floor

Date: 1920
Description: Woman cleaning a wooden floor in an open doorway of her farmhouse with a scrub brush.
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Woman Wringing Clothes with Early Washing Machine

Date: 10 1923
Description: Mrs. Granere wringing clothes with a Maytag washing machine at Harvester Farm.
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Woman Throwing Out Wash Water

Date: 1925
Description: Woman dumping wash water from a metal wash basin on the back step of her farmhouse.
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Woman Washing Laundry in Tub

Date: 05 1923
Description: Mrs. Eshe demonstrating the washing of laundry with a washboard, ringer and tub in front of a farm house. The original caption reads: "Washing with no impr...
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Woman Chopping Wood

Date: 06 1923
Description: Woman chopping wood on the farm of E.A. Bancroft.
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At Grandfather's House

Date: 1955
Description: A young boy helps his grandfather unload a cart of split logs.
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Russian Women Washing Clothes

Date: 1910
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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Betsey Busied by Bossy's Butter

Date: 1905
Description: Woman churning butter.
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Men Cutting Wood

Date: 1900
Description: Three men cutting points on logs for fence posts.
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William Sachtjen

Date: 1940
Description: Future District Court Judge William Sachtjen, wearing an apron and holding a broom. He is standing behind a 7-Up sign. Sachtjen worked at Droster's Grocery...
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Four Women Sewing

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Description: A group of four women sewing in a business setting.
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Spring House Cleaning

Date: 04 01 1949
Description: Mrs. William B. (Rachel) Fisher, 733 Copeland Avenue, assembling the cleaning products she will use during spring house cleaning. A new bride, this is her ...
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Clothing Mill Sewing Room

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Description: About twenty women sit at tables sewing on sewing machines in the sewing room of the Chippewa Woolen Mill.
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Wilbur La Bounty, Paralyzed Homecrafter Making Bird Houses

Date: 03 15 1955
Description: He is Wilbur La Bounty, paralyzed homecrafter, making bird houses. He is sitting before a work table with a jig saw and his completed 12 log cabin-style bi...
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Logging Clean-Up Crew

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Description: Group of men and a boy posed holding logging tools and standing in front of tents on the banks of a river, probably just south of Black River Falls. A man ...
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Barn Raising in Sheboygan County

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Description: A large group of men are using log poles to pull the side of a new timber framed barn up to meet the roof line.
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Barn Raising in Sheboygan County

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Description: A large group of men pause briefly in their work of raising this large timber framed barn.
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Barn Raising in Sheboygan County

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Description: Four men pause in their work of building a new, large barn. They are all wearing hats for protection from the sun.
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Woman on Beach using Loom

Date: 1910
Description: A woman sitting on a beach using a loom. In her journals, Carrie often described looms and their use for making cloth for clothes, siding for houses, woven...

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