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| Date: | 09 01 1971 |
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| Description: | A young mother feeds her infant baby food outdoors. |
| Date: | 04 1923 |
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| Description: | A bundled-up woman hand pumps water from a well into a pail. The ground is covered with ice and snow. Two cars and a farmhouse are in the background. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Two young women talking in a bedroom. One is packing or unpacking clothes into a travel bag. A copy of Herbert Quick's "Vandemark's Folly" is among the boo... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | 1913 Sears Roebuck catalog page of woman with "Wizard" washing machine. |
| Date: | 05 08 1955 |
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| Description: | A boy in the bath tub being bathed by his mother. |
| Date: | 05 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Mother and daughter washing dishes together. |
| Date: | 09 13 1949 |
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| Description: | Elderly woman making pancakes on griddle at wood burning stove. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Husband and wife canning corn in kitchen using Burpee Can Sealer. |
| Date: | 03 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Woman stirring the contents of an Osterizer blender that is sitting on the stove. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Woman using a Necchi sewing machine. Advertisements are in the background. |
| Date: | 04 1923 |
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| Description: | Woman carrying a bucket of water back to her farmhouse in winter. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Ojibwa chief's lodge from Lac Courte Orielles Reservation set up at the 1906 Wisconsin State Fair. Note both reed and bark coverings on the lodge. A number... |
| Date: | 08 22 1963 |
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| Description: | "Picnicking in Mitchell Park provided a pleasant afternoon recently for these senior citizens who participated in the Milwaukee County Park Commission's pr... |
| Date: | 05 08 1964 |
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| Description: | A waitress sets restaurant tables in anticipation of evening business. |
| Date: | 05 05 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing an apron preparing a hazelnut torte from a prized recipe. |
| Date: | 11 21 1963 |
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| Description: | A variety of canned and fresh peppers is artfully displayed by the woman who serves them to her family and gives them as gifts. |
| Date: | 09 25 1963 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two women, one pulling loaves of bread from the oven and the other glazing crusts in the church kitchen. |
| Date: | 10 13 1963 |
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| Description: | A housewife showing off her newly-installed laundry room. |
| Date: | 07 07 1963 |
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| Description: | Jehovah's Witnesses assembly camper doing laundry. |
| Date: | 08 15 1963 |
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| Description: | Two women examine a prizing winning chiffon cake. |
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