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Two Women with Cleaning Implements

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Description: Two women are standing on the small porch outside an open kitchen door, near implements used for daily household tasks such as washing, scrubbing, sweeping...
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Two Women Outside a Log Cabin

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Description: Two women stand outside the doorway of a log house in winter. They are posed with a washtub, broom and dust pan.
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Woman Cleaning Wooden Floor

Date: 1920
Description: Woman cleaning a wooden floor in an open doorway of her farmhouse with a scrub brush.
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Mechanics Working on International Trucks

Date: 1942
Description: Mechanics working inside the service center of an International Harvester dealership. The door of one of the trucks is painted "McCormick-Deering Store."
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Unloading Bank Vault Door

Date: 07 05 1929
Description: Five men are unloading a vault door from a railroad car onto a truck for the Bank of Wisconsin State Street Branch.
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Unloading Bank Vault Door

Date: 07 05 1929
Description: Five men are unloading a vault door from a railroad car onto a truck for the Bank of Wisconsin State Street Branch.
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Consecration of Bishop Weller as Bishop Coadjutor

Date: 11 08 1900
Description: Consecration of Bishop Weller as Bishop Coadjutor, Diocese of Fund du Lac. Three Bishops seated, l to r: Bishop Nicholson of Milwaukee; Bishop Grafton of F...
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Fixing a Screen

Date: 10 01 1938
Description: J. Robert Taylor leaning out of a doorway, fixing a screen door with a hammer in his right hand. Another door is leaning against the house to the left of ...
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Fixing a Screen Door

Date: 10 01 1938
Description: J. Robert Taylor fixing a screen door. He is standing on the inside of the door, with a hammer in his right hand.
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United States General Hospital

Date: 1920
Description: View of blind men learning carpentry skills at the United States General Hospital No. 7, as designated by the surgeon-general in 1918. Intended for returni...
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Man Standing on Scaffolding

Date: 05 1926
Description: A man stands on makeshift scaffolding while hammering a nail into a door awning. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extens...
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Woman Washing Wooden Porch

Date: 04 23 1926
Description: A woman wearing a dress, hat, and stockings uses a mop and bucket to wash a damaged wooden porch attached to a farmhouse.
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Man Outside Log Cabin

Date: 1892
Description: A man posing with an ax and chopping block is standing outside the door of a log cabin during the winter. The man has been identified as James B.F. Server,...
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Cleaning Supply Closet

Date: 07 1923
Description: A broom, dustpan, and a duster hanging in a cleaning supply closet at the top of a staircase in the house of Adolph Betz.
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Self-Wringing Mop

Date: 1923
Description: Mrs. Jake George standing on a wooden porch while using a foot pedal to wring excess water from a mop.
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City Employees

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Description: A group of about two dozen male city employees, three carrying shovels, stand in front of the double doors of a large brick building. There is a wooden wal...
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Christmas Customs

Date: 12 14 1953
Description: Maybelle Otterson demonstrates a Christmas custom as she hangs a front door decoration on her home at 209 North Blackhawk Avenue in Shorewood.
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Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Christmas Joy

Date: 1939
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a man and three boys positioning a ladder to hang holiday decorations on the exterior of the settle...
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Domestic Dispute

Date: 1895
Description: In a posed scene, the photographer, wearing sleeve protectors, stands on the porch holding a bucket and large measuring cup while his smiling wife Clara th...
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Emil Boeing Barn

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Description: Exterior three-quarter view of white barn. There are milk cans on the left side of the building. The front and side of the barn has small extension rooms w...

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