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| Description: | Eight men are posing outside the porch of a cottage which is surrounded by trees. There are blankets and clothes hanging on the clothesline. A work table w... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Two women wash clothes in large pails, while a girl and a young man stand nearby. "43 people, 10 families, share three outdoor hydrants. 8 people share 1 i... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Exterior view across yard of a two-story house with a barn built adjacent to it. Two people are standing near the door of the house. In the yard is a woode... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two girls cleaning. One is carrying a basket while another holds a large fan-shaped object which was used like a broom. The description in the lower right ... |
| Date: | 03 25 1961 |
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| Description: | One of twenty four images of women visiting the University of Wisconsin Home Economics Department. |
| Date: | 06 15 1961 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Richard Sroda, a public information specialist with the 32nd Division, was the photographer and Sp4 David Gordon, public information specialist for th... |
| Date: | 05 12 1964 |
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| Description: | Marie Ackley is sweeping the floor of the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lund. She is working as a health aide in a new Visiting Nurse Service program an... |
| Date: | 05 12 1964 |
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| Description: | Marie Ackley gives the kitchen of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lund a woman's touch while Mr. Ackley prepares dinner. Mrs. Ackley works as a health aide in a new Vi... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Interior portrait of a man sitting at a kitchen table adjusting his homemade telescope. His wife is washing dishes behind him. Open shelves on the wall dis... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View across yard towards James Peterson playing with a cat. In the background, laundry is hanging on a clothesline and beehives are standing at the edge of... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Howard and Jack Greene doing laundry in Lake McFarland. |
| Date: | 11 04 1983 |
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| Description: | A woman is washing several windows that are leaning against the side of a building. Front of image is captioned: "Joyce Rhoades of Merrillan, WI. washed st... |
| Date: | 03 13 1979 |
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| Description: | A woman is leaning out over the top of a double-hung window in order to wash the window exterior with rags. Caption reads: "Monday brought temperatures tha... |
| Date: | 02 17 1981 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of a man hanging clothes on a clothesline, while holding a clothespin in his mouth. Snow is on the ground. Caption reads: "LIFE IS A BREEZE —... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Washing day in the refugee camp. Women are shown washing clothes in a large bucket as women and children are watching from the tents. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Belgian refugees hanging up their clothes after the daily washing. |
| Date: | 04 24 1958 |
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| Description: | Kathleen Russell, Iowa County home agent, left, meeting with Mrs. Milton Leix, Cobb, president of the county homemakers organization. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View from the lake of Miss Ransom washing clothes by hand, using lake water. Beside her on the pier is an enamel metal wash bowl. Archibald Lake is in the ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Two women are standing at a table in a kitchen, with one woman drying a dish, and the other washing dishes in a large bowl. Dishes and pans are stacked on ... |
| Date: | 07 1970 |
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| Description: | Linda Luna of Auraura, Illinois washes clothes at a basin outside a cabin in a migrant worker camp in Door County. Several articles of clothing are lying i... |
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