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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: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Sewing room at Lac du Flambeau U.S. Government School for Indian children. Female students posed at their sewing machines and work tables. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Chromolithograph card of a boy and a girl from Manila, the capital city of the Philippines, in "native" Filipino costume, posing next to a Singer sewing ma... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Chromolithograph card of a group of three men from Roumania [Romania] in "native" costume, posing next to a Singer sewing machine. Part of a "Costumes of A... |
| 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: | Margery Bish as a little girl. She is wearing a striped dress while hanging clothes on a clothesline. There is a doll behind her on the right. |
| 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: | Supply room of the Northern Hospital for the Insane. Canned and bottled goods, kitchenware, clothing, and blankets are on the shelves. |
| 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: | Several looms in the instructional weaving facility at the State School for the Blind. |
| 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: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A woman prepares a meal at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress. |
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