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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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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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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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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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Baby on Landing of Building

Date: 1922
Description: View across the yard towards James Peterson sitting on a landing near the open door of a house or farm building with two windows. Stacked on a crate near t...
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Christine Peterson Cleaning Vegetables

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Description: Mrs. (Christine) Peterson by the back door. She is sitting on the top step and a cat is standing at her feet. A small pile of vegetables are next to her on...
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Repair Shop at Dealership

Date: 06 29 1925
Description: View through open doorway towards the interior of a repair shop. In the doorway is a rolling cart with brooms, a shovel, and a large, covered metal contain...
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Winter Entrepreneur

Date: 1973
Description: View down hill towards a boy kicking at a door to see if they want their walk shoveled after a snowfall.

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