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: | 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: | 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... |
Date: | |
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Description: | Two women work in a garden. One of the women is picking vegetables, while the other woman hangs laundry. |
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... |
Date: | |
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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.... |
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: | 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 ... |
Date: | 1923 |
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Description: | A woman using a foot-pedal sewing machine while working with a piece of fraying fabric. |
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. Guener washing dishes while sitting on a stool attached to a sink in J.O. Waggoner's home. |
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: | 1916 |
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Description: | A woman wearing an apron is standing near a wheeled butler's tray while drying dishes in a kitchen. A sink, table, chair and utensils are behind her. |
Date: | 06 1923 |
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Description: | Mrs. J.E. Waggoner passing plaid fabric through a wringer after using an electric washing machine. A washboard is hanging on the wall in the background, an... |
Date: | 10 1927 |
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Description: | A woman sitting in a wooden chair while using an electric iron on clothing. A laundry basket is at her feet. |
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