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| Date: | 07 24 1960 |
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| Description: | Laundry hangs on a clothesline and blows in the wind. There are fields behind, and low hills in the distance. |
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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: | 10 08 1950 |
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| Description: | Sydney S. Miller, manager of the Madison Social Security Office, shares a 1950 government-issued booklet explaining a program to employers of household wor... |
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| Description: | View of the old kitchen at the Telfair Academy. Room features a fireplace with cooking and other kitchen tools, a mantle with tableware and other small dec... |
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| Description: | Amateur painting by Eleanor R. Craighill. Representing a woman in an apron and hat polishing(?) a pot in front of the kitchen fireplace in the Governor's P... |
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| Description: | View of two maids in aprons and bonnets hanging laundry out to dry in the yard of the Governor's Palace. The Palace can be seen in the background past tree... |
| 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: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A metal sanitary garbage pail attaches underneath the kitchen sink and pipes at the farmhouse of Miss Lella Gaddis. |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Granere using a Maytag wringer and two metal rinsing buckets to wash clothing on the International Harvester demonstration farm. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | View of the Home Makers Annex, a three-story house with an ivy covered porch, a lawn, and several trees in the background. |
| 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: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Woman working in kitchen straining jelly bags over pot in preparation for canning. The photograph was taken at an "IHC Farm," probably in Hinsdale, Illinoi... |
| Date: | 07 23 1926 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a person's slicing a plate of canned meatloaf. Original can and can opener are on the table next to the food. |
| 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: | 10 1927 |
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| Description: | Woman wearing an apron and identified as Anne Jilk is posing with a can of beans to demonstrate the testing of canned food. |
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