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Aluminum Toy Dishes Window Display

Date: 11 15 1926
Description: Window display of Schmidt Hardware Comany showing Mirro Aluminum toy sets: dishes, silverware.
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The Tea Party

Date: 1925
Description: Girl pouring tea.
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Chief Oshkosh Remembrance

Date: 05 25 1926
Description: Menominee Indians eating lunch together on Chief Oshkosh Day, May 25, 1926, "the occasion of the removal of the chief's remains from an unmarked grave besi...
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Chippewa Woman Making Baskets

Date: 1925
Description: A Chippewa (Ojibwa) woman preparing splints for basket making. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, the fir...
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Woman Cutting Carrots

Date: 1920
Description: A young woman wearing an apron smiles as she slices a carrot into a pan.
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Milking the Cows

Date: 1929
Description: A woman runs the milking operation at the G.L. Hamon dairy farm.
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Nellie Kedzie Jones

Date: 1920
Description: Audience surrounding Nellie Kedzie Jones on the Agricultural Extension Home Economics circuit in Northern Wisconsin.
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Dressmaking Instruction

Date: 1922
Description: Dressmaking instruction outdoors, with one woman serving as a model.
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Dressmaking Specialist

Date: 1922
Description: Dressmaking instructor conducting an outdoor dressmaking class.
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Doing Dishes

Date: 1920
Description: A woman washing dishes outdoors in a washtub.
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Farm Couple

Date: 1920
Description: Farm couple seated together outdoors on the lawn, his arm around her shoulders.
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Outdoor Chores

Date: 1920
Description: Woman doing chores outdoors.
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Mrs. Endres Feeding Chickens

Date: 1925
Description: Mrs. John Endres feeding the chickens in the farmyard with her dog.
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"Red Baby" Truck Carrying "One Minute" Washers

Date: 1924
Description: Curt Moore selling "one minute" washing machines to a farmer's wife. The washing machines are loaded in the back of an International "Red Baby" truck. The...
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Woman Washes Clothes with Power Washer

Date: 05 16 1928
Description: Woman washing clothes with a washing machine powered by a a McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 HP engine.
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H.L. Mencken Having a Beer for Breakfast

Date: 1927
Description: H.L. Mencken sits at the breakfast table reading the newspaper and dining on toast and a goblet of beer. He autographed the photograph with "Breakfast in t...
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State Fair Handbill

Date: 1929
Description: Printed color handbill that advertised the special events of the Wisconsin State Fair. The illustration shows a woman bearing a platter of produce.
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Villa Louis

Date: 1920
Description: Interior view of the front hallway of Villa Louis.
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Woman Candling Eggs

Date: 06 1925
Description: A seated woman candling eggs at Holden Farm.
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Farm Hazard Burning Trash

Date: 04 1926
Description: A man burns rubbish close to the house.

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