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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Woman washing clothes outdoors with a washtub, washboard, wringer, clothespins and clothesline. |
| 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: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Husband and wife canning corn in kitchen using Burpee Can Sealer. |
| Date: | 04 1923 |
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| Description: | Woman carrying a bucket of water back to her farmhouse in winter. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Man butchering a hog, which is hanging on a meat hook. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Woman ironing cloth with old-fashioned heated iron. Behind her is a sink. |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Electric stove in the rural farmhouse kitchen of Adolph Betz. |
| Date: | 10 1927 |
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| Description: | Woman vacuuming rug with a "Vacuette" sweeper in a farmhouse living room. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Woman cleaning a wooden floor in an open doorway of her farmhouse with a scrub brush. |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Granere wringing clothes with a Maytag washing machine at Harvester Farm. |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A woman pretends to pour kerosene on a hot stove as part of an International Harvester Agricultural Extension Department campaign to make families aware of... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Young girl sitting at a table eating cereal(?) from a bowl. She also has a glass of milk and a plate with toast. |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | "Jewel" brand stove inside a farmhouse kitchen. The original caption reads: "Stove for patch work in making faked pictures." |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the Harold Fowler McCormick family, friends and servants at Walnut Grove. Left to right (seated): Kathleen (Mrs. Rush) Searson, F... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Woman dumping wash water from a metal wash basin on the back step of her farmhouse. |
| Date: | 07 17 1926 |
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| Description: | Staged scene of a woman sewing with a young child attempting to help. This photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Depart... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Counters and display cases show goods for sale in the General Store. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A woman stands amid a patch of squash plants and displays a large squash in Marinette County. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International engines. Includes illustrations of the engines' farm uses, including pumping water, washing clothes, and operating a c... |
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