Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | The household staff (probably Swedish) for one family home, including laundresses, cooks, parlor maids, and scullery girls with their various work utensils... |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Engraving for "Peterson's Magazine" of women in maids' uniforms sliding down an icy path in the snow. |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the Harold Fowler McCormick family, friends and servants at Walnut Grove. Left to right (seated): Kathleen (Mrs. Rush) Searson, F... |
Date: | 06 08 1934 |
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Description: | Outdoor portrait of Nettie Livingston, 1205 Vilas Avenue, who works as a maid at Wisconsin General Hospital, hopes to win a vacation at the Bowman House, a... |
Date: | 1877 |
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Description: | The Neils Hallanger family is posed in their yard around a table piled with books. One lady is posed with a parasol and servant women sit on a sofa in the ... |
Date: | 1876 |
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Description: | Benjamin F. Hahn, his wife Mary and their servant Sarah Hill sit around a table with an intricately patterned cloth with bowls of apples and grapes. The wo... |
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Description: | Two women work in a garden. One of the women is picking vegetables, while the other woman hangs laundry. |
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Description: | Five women pose for a group portrait in front of a painted backdrop with various household articles such as an iron, feather duster, platter, cup, pitcher,... |
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Description: | A studio portrait of six women posing in front of a painted backdrop. They are holding household items including an iron, knife, potato, dustpan, broom, pi... |
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Description: | Two women stand for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing aprons over their long dresses and are holding hands. |
Date: | 07 12 1949 |
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Description: | Ginny Hall, a West High School senior, has a summer job caring for Sharon and Sandra Sinn, the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Sinn, 3405 Blackhawk Dr... |
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Description: | Studio portrait of two women sitting in front of three standing women, all holding household items, including: pie, iron, cup, towel, platter, and glasses.... |
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Description: | A woman stands at a sawhorse between two small outbuildings using a hand saw with a sawhorse. A large building is visible in the background. |
Date: | 08 1927 |
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Description: | A woman stooping to remove an electrical cord from in front of a vacuum cleaner. |
Date: | 08 1927 |
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Description: | A woman wearing a house dress, stockings, and heeled shoes standing on the porch railing of a brick house to hang what appears to be clothesline from porch... |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Mrs. Marie Cromer Zigler, left, assisting a group of girls as they gather around a table to participate in a girls' Canning Club. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | A brother and sister use an Eau Claire steam pressure machine to run their canning business. |
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: | 02 1915 |
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Description: | Young African American woman sweeping front steps of a residence. Original caption reads: "the 'sedge brush' broom is used a great deal for light sweeping ... |
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