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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of a corner of a kitchen with an opened window above a stove top. The kitchen is equipped with cupboards that are lined with spices, containers, and o... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A four-tiered drying rack used to dry fruits and vegetables hangs from the ceiling above a heater in what appears to be a basement or root cellar. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A wooden drying rack is hanging from the ceiling over a gas stove in what appears to be a cellar or a shed. |
| 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: | 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: | 09 28 1953 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Brickner's Applinaces & TV at the new Madison East Shopping Center on East Washington Avenue, with a car parked in front. |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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. |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Granere using a washing machine powered by a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm (Harveste... |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Kerosene hot water heater. Larger tanks are behind the heater. |
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