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Filter: Year of 1900-1999
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Woman cleaning a wooden floor in an open doorway of her farmhouse with a scrub brush. |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Granere wringing clothes with a Maytag washing machine at Harvester Farm. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Woman dumping wash water from a metal wash basin on the back step of her farmhouse. |
| Date: | 05 1923 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Woman chopping wood on the farm of E.A. Bancroft. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A young boy helps his grandfather unload a cart of split logs. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Three men cutting points on logs for fence posts. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 01 1949 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 03 15 1955 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | People working in a field. Beside them is a basket full of a type of food. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Mrs. (Christine) Peterson and Mrs. Torgeson (a neighbor) are working in the upstairs loft of the barn. Christine is sitting in a chair using a spinning whe... |
| Date: | 08 1911 |
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| Description: | The Gang split wood for the cooking fire at their camp by Sturgeon Lake. |
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