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| 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... |
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| Description: | Two women are standing on the small porch outside an open kitchen door, near implements used for daily household tasks such as washing, scrubbing, sweeping... |
| Date: | 04 21 1957 |
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| Description: | An industrious family cleans their motorboat which is parked in the driveway. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Woman sweeping snow off a porch. She is wearing a dress and apron. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Woman washing clothes outdoors with a washtub, washboard, wringer, clothespins and clothesline. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of woman hanging up laundry on clotheslines outdoors. |
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| Description: | Two women stand outside the doorway of a log house in winter. They are posed with a washtub, broom and dust pan. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | 1913 Sears Roebuck catalog page of woman with "Wizard" washing machine. |
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| Description: | Composite photograph/painting of a woman standing and pouring (fake) water into a cracked basin, with the water spilling onto the floor. |
| Date: | 10 13 1963 |
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| Description: | A housewife showing off her newly-installed laundry room. |
| Date: | 07 07 1963 |
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| Description: | Jehovah's Witnesses assembly camper doing laundry. |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Granere wringing clothes with a Maytag washing machine at Harvester Farm. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Woman cleaning kerosene lamps on the front porch(?) of her house. |
| Date: | 05 26 1956 |
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| Description: | A boy kneeling down to scrub a pot that is resting in a basin of soapy water. |
| Date: | 04 02 1946 |
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| Description: | Mr. Mullarkey (probably Leo R. Mullarkey) standing beside Glider Home Laundry and Dry Cleaning Agitator, Washer and steam garment press with Vel Colgate so... |
| Date: | 01 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig basement showroom featuring cleaning supplies. |
| Date: | 01 11 1934 |
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| Description: | Amanda Maisch being honored for her 20th anniversary as Janitress at Madison Central High School. Sitting L to R: Elsie Kind, mathematics; Amanda Maisch; E... |
| Date: | 05 23 1932 |
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| Description: | Baby Shirley Krueger watching from her carriage as her mother Elna Krueger is taking laundry off the clothesline. |
| Date: | 01 13 1956 |
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| Description: | Edna Kern washing the windows outside her house. A cat is lying on the lawn in the foreground. |
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