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Margery Bish Hanging Clothes on Clothesline

Date: 1890
Description: Margery Bish as a little girl. She is wearing a striped dress while hanging clothes on a clothesline. There is a doll behind her on the right.
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Washing Dishes

Date: 05 08 1955
Description: Mother and daughter washing dishes together.
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Scouring Pans

Date: 05 26 1956
Description: A boy kneeling down to scrub a pot that is resting in a basin of soapy water.
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Child Sitting on Sidewalk

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Description: A barefoot child is sitting on the sidewalk. Houses and buildings are in the background, and laundry is hanging out to dry.
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Woman Doing Laundry in Alabama

Date: 04 29 1935
Description: A woman outdoors next to a house standing over a large, black pot, possibly doing laundry. Four children are playing around the woman near the entrance.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Student Housing Project

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Description: Elevated view of University of Wisconsin-Madison student housing project at Monroe Street. There was housing at Monroe Street and Randall Avenue for marrie...
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Laundry Room at the Winnebago County Asylum

Date: 1930
Description: Interior view of the laundry room at the Winnebago County Asylum. Pictured are the staff, including a young boy. Some of the women are ironing articles of ...
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Girl Washing Doll Clothes

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Bertha Gesell washing doll clothes in a wooden tub. Clothes are on a clothesline behind her. Her doll sit...
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Staircase Danger

Date: 07 1927
Description: A girl holding a long coat or blanket, a broom, and a dustpan while descending a flight of stairs at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm.
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Children in Tenement Section

Date: 1923
Description: Children joining hands while playing in an alleyway between brick buildings in an area of tenement housing. A line of laundry suspended over the alley is h...
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Roland and Winnie Delamater Family

Date: 03 11 1957
Description: Winnie Delamater and her daughter Sandra, age 6, use carpet sweepers to clean in their home. Winnie and her husband Roland were both seriously physically h...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: T.T. Club: The Little Housekeepers

Date: 1932
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with girls in the T.T. Club performing household duties. One image shows club members practicing bathing ...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: T.T. Club: Cooking and Making Beds

Date: 1932
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with two images of T.T. Club members. On image shows girls using a hand beater and stirring a pot on the ...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: T.T. Club: A Swell Time

Date: 1932
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with two T.T. Club images, one of two girls tending to another girl who is in bed ("and a tray for Katie"...
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Lilia Suckow

Date: 1932
Description: Lilia Suckow, a student at Peck School, works in a tulip bed outside her house. Clothes dry on a line behind the house.
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Two Girls Cleaning

Date: 1910
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 ...
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Belgian Refugees in Holland

Date: 1914
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.
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Belgian Refugees

Date: 1914
Description: Belgian refugees hanging up their clothes after the daily washing.

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