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Two Young Women in Bedroom

Date: 1929
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...
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Pioneer Living Room

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Description: A collection of pioneer household articles arranged in a living room.
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Children Using a Telephone

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Description: Laurie and Muriel Peterson, children of the photographer, use a high chair to talk on the phone.
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Ultimate Hi-Fi System

Date: 08 12 1958
Description: Urbane gentleman shows off his sophisticated high fidelity wall system with reel-to-reel tape deck, reels of tape, and record albums.
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Back Porch Laundry Room

Date: 10 13 1963
Description: A housewife showing off her newly-installed laundry room.
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Modern Kitchen

Date: 1950
Description: An interior view of a kitchen/dining area/den, from behind the electric range looking into the den.
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Villa Louis

Date: 1920
Description: Interior view of the front hallway of Villa Louis.
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Bedroom

Date: 1999
Description: View of the lace curtain and bedroom decor in the Quinney house on Rolfe Road.
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Winfield Martin House

Date: 07 27 1949
Description: Interior of the Winfield Martin house, 2906 Lakeland Avenue (earlier address: 611 Elmside Boulevard), showing the stairway, with a telephone on a cabinet n...
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Winfield Martin House

Date: 07 27 1949
Description: Interior of the Winfield Martin house, 2906 Lakeland Avenue (earlier address: 611 Elmside Boulevard), showing the upstairs hall at the top of the stairway....
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Schantz Home

Date: 02 17 1950
Description: Interior view of the boys' bedroom in the new home of Harold and Monona Schantz, located at 310 Kensington Drive.
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Woman with Dumbwaiter

Date: 1920
Description: Mrs. John Bowers removing a plate of food from the dumbwaiter in her Benton County farmhouse.
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Sleeping Porch

Date: 1925
Description: Four beds line either side of the sleeping porch at the farmhouse of J.E. Joyce. A telephone is hanging on the wall and striped curtains are covering the o...
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Coat Rack

Date: 07 1923
Description: Coats, hats, and bags hanging from a coat rack inside a farmhouse entryway at the home of Adolph Betz. Two pairs of shoes are lined against the wall at the...
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Homemaker Club

Date: 11 1980
Description: View from a stage of a gathering of the Homemaker Club.
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Two Year Old Girl Abducted from Her Front Yard by Salesman

Date: 04 01 1964
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Leon W. Binger, parents of 2-year-old Carol, watching the court proceedings for Thomas Howard. Howard is accused of abducting Carol from her f...
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Afternoon Matinee at Home

Date: 10 14 2014
Description: View of the interior of a private home. The foreground is dark, except for the television screen which is showing a woman. The subtitles of the movie read:...
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Home Hallway in Winter

Date: 01 08 2015
Description: Interior view of a hallway. There is a glass block window at end of the hallway, with a small piece of stained glass attached to the top. A framed image of...
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Living Room at Home

Date: 11 16 2014
Description: View of a living room looking towards a set of large windows looking out on a deck with a railing. Potted plants are sitting on stands on the carpet in fro...
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Home Bound Gentleman Using a Typewriter

Date: 12 06 1954
Description: A bed-ridden man working from home. Laying in a hospital bed set up in his living room, he is using a typewriter that that is sitting on a table between a ...

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