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| Date: | 04 21 1957 |
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| Description: | An industrious family cleans their motorboat which is parked in the driveway. |
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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: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for a washer wringer from the 1913 Sears Catalog. |
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| Description: | A woman dust mops the floor while listening to a radiophone that is perched on the window sill. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Houses by a stream in Zermatt, Switzerland. A woman is doing laundry (?) in the foreground. |
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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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| Description: | CIO students doing kitchen duty at Highlander Folk School. Myles Horton helping. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking northwest from Division Street and East Water Street. Rooftop of building in foreground has laundry hanging from a line. In the back... |
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| Description: | Interior view of a University of Wisconsin Home Economics Department practice kitchen demonstrating orderly shelf usage. |
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| Description: | Interior view of a kitchen showing sink, stove, counter, and shelves. Apparently to demonstrate effective kitchen organization. |
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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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| Description: | Elevated view of backyard areas, including some dilapidated houses and outbuildings. There are wood fences surrounding some of the yards, and laundry hangs... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| 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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| Description: | View of a person doing laundry in metal tubs on a bench outside. The caption reads: "'The Hand Laundry' Lake Huntington, N.Y." |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Dayton Pump Products Company of Belgium, Wisconsin, distributor of Dayton Water Systems, with six vignettes of water systems in use: wate... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| 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"... |
| 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... |
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