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| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a woman cutting string beans at a kitchen counter. A pot on a stovetop and a sink are in the background. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A woman lifting jars of vegetables from a pot using a wire holder. |
| Date: | 10 28 1948 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin home economics student Charlene Bishop, making pancakes in a laboratory. |
| Date: | 04 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Young homemakers, Caroline Reierson, 615 Dennett Drive, and Arveda Kuhlmey, 713 Dennett Drive, experiment with a new culinary process for cooking meat. The... |
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| Description: | Woman in a long dress standing in kitchen with cook-box, a device to facilitate consistent results in cooking. There is a sideboard on the right. |
| Date: | 10 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Randall Elementary School kindergartners are shown making applesauce under the supervision of their teacher Marguerite Drew. Stirring the pot is Patty Hurl... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A woman irons clothing on an ironing board in a kitchen setting. She is standing in the middle of the room, surrounded by cabinets, a sink and mirror, and ... |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing an apron pouring oil into a hot stove at the International Harvester Hinsdale experimental farm, illustrating a dangerous scenario for Inte... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress and apron is using an "Easy Model H" wringer washing machine made by the Syracuse Washer Corporation. |
| Date: | 10 1927 |
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| Description: | A woman mixing food in a pot heated on an electric plate. |
| 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: | 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 1923 |
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| Description: | Miss Zearing using a grinder to make bread crumbs inside a farmhouse kitchen. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Woman and young girl working in a kitchen canning beans. The girl is standing at the sink running a faucet while the woman is seated at a table using a bea... |
| 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: | 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: | 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 ... |
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