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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | The household staff (probably Swedish) for one family home, including laundresses, cooks, parlor maids, and scullery girls with their various work utensils... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Group of men posing in the dining room at August Mason's lumber camp. Three men are playing stringed instruments. Posters are displayed on the wall behind ... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Interior of the kitchen at 12 North Broom Street, the residence of James and Mary Ellen Nevin, showing Mrs. Nevin and her sister cooking. James Nevin was ... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | From a portfolio of collotype prints issued in 1900, a sewing class at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd J... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Bedroom scene with two boys in a bed with ornate headboard. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | College students at the University of Wisconsin having a fudge-making party around a small gas burner. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A woman pours tea for her friends seated outdoors at a table. |
| Date: | 08 1898 |
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| Description: | Summer kitchen at the Turville family farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | The kitchen in the Northern Hospital for the Insane. Institutional cooking equipment and various supplies are visible. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Dining room at the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Dining hall at the State Public School, with numerous tables and place settings. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Eight people posing in front of a one-story clapboard house holding possessions. The man on the far left is holding a gun and wears a ammunition belt aroun... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Dining room decorated with streamers for a wedding reception. The table is set formally with candles and there is a wedding cake as a centerpiece. |
| Date: | 05 05 1894 |
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| Description: | Outdoor bake oven in a yard near a house, with a dog lying nearby. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for Osborne agricultural machinery showing a woman and two young girls mixing ingredients for a recipe from an Osborne cata... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Alice and Eleanor Brown with their nurse in front of 121 East Gilman Street. The three houses in the photo are 125 East Gilman, 133 East Gilman and 139 Ea... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Alice Brown on the porch of 121 East Gilman Street. Taken with a Kodak #2 camera. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Houses by a stream in Zermatt, Switzerland. A woman is doing laundry (?) in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elderly woman sitting in a rocking chair knitting in front of a window. |
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