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| 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: | 02 04 1948 |
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| Description: | A young woman serving as the photographer's assistant is standing beside a woman sitting in a chair wearing a hat, and a Farm and Home Week name tag. She i... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with Lucy Martinelli stitching a seam using an elaborately decorated electric sewing machine. Sewing cla... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A seated portrait of Catherine Orb Seipp sitting near a window, knitting. Her upholstered chair has carved wood accents. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Miss Mae Houston, director of the home economics laboratory at Evansville, sitting at a desk. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Ann Hamman at International Harvester's refrigeration works. |
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| Description: | Quarter plate ambrotype of Edward P. Bridgman (1834-1915) at left, and unidentified man at right. Two half figures sit on either side of a table on which a... |
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| Description: | Portrait of a woman sitting on a chair holding a cigarette and holding a camera up to her eye. On the table in front of her are three Schlitz beer bottles,... |
| Date: | 04 25 1958 |
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| Description: | Constance Elvehjem will sell some of her famous baked beans made from her grandmother's recipe at the Madison Altrusa club's annual country fair at the Spr... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | One of two images under the headline: "Wives of Alaskan Pioneers Kept Busy Sewing, Making Tent Homes Neat and Clean." Original caption reads: "Mrs. Bud Hol... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Looking at the camera, Minnie Vent is standing in the kitchen in front of the sink. Sunlight is streaming in from the window above the sink. Kitchen cabine... |
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