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| Date: | 10 1927 |
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| Description: | A woman mixing food in a pot heated on an electric plate. |
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| Description: | View of the work area along windows where casting inspection takes place. Caption on stereograph reads: "No. 9 View showing one of the straightening benche... |
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| Description: | A man operates the polishing machine at Malleable Iron Range Company. Caption on stereograph reads: "No. 11 One of the automatic polishing machines which s... |
| Date: | 11 1919 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a full-length apron using a pressure kettle on a stove top, probably for home canning. |
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| Description: | Ellen Proxmire and an unidentified woman shown in a kitchen cooking. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Clara Middleton sits with a dog and rabbit on her lap in what may be a self-portrait. There is a daybed and treadle sewing machine in the background. |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Description: | Florence and Harold Wiedmeyer have been married for 65 years and lived here for 62 years. They raised 12 children. |
| Date: | 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Col. Robert K. Haskell (left) receiving the one millionth shell manufactured by the Malleable Iron Range Co. of Beaver Dam in a ceremony at the manufacturi... |
| Date: | 07 1926 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a bow tie is toasting a piece of bread on an electric griddle with its cord hanging on a nail on the wall at International Harvester's Hinsda... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Forest Middleton, wearing a plaid dress, lectures his Teddy Bear, which is seated in a high chair. |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Miss Zearing using a grinder to make bread crumbs inside a farmhouse kitchen. |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman moving a box of firewood inside a farmhouse. A teakettle is standing on a stove to the left. |
| Date: | 07 23 1926 |
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| Description: | Woman in kitchen demonstrating the canning process. Original caption reads, "pail and wire rack for cold pack canning." The photo was taken at Harvester Fa... |
| Date: | 07 1926 |
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| Description: | Woman in a kitchen dipping freshly canned corn into pot. Original caption reads, "canning corn. Putting cans in pressure kettle for cooking." Taken at Harv... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A woman and a girl are using an electric washing machine to clean clothing or bedsheets in a basement. The machine is powered by a DELCO-Light Plant system... |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Betz ironing a skirt on a wall-mounted foldout ironing board. A radiator is along the wall near a sink, and a wooden chair is on the right. |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Description: | After she baked some apple pies, Frieda Giese, 85, lounges in her expansive kitchen. |
| Date: | 10 04 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress using an axe to split a log into firewood. A hand-operated washing machine is standing in the yard of a farmhouse in the background... |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Waggoner using a Coffield electric washing machine and wringer to launder clothing on International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm (Harvester ... |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Granere starting a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine in order to power a Maytag washer. |
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