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... |
Date: | 05 08 1955 |
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Description: | Mother and daughter washing dishes together. |
Date: | 10 13 1963 |
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Description: | A housewife showing off her newly-installed laundry room. |
Date: | 10 1927 |
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Description: | Woman vacuuming rug with a "Vacuette" sweeper in a farmhouse living room. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Woman cleaning a wooden floor in an open doorway of her farmhouse with a scrub brush. |
Date: | 10 1923 |
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Description: | Mrs. Granere wringing clothes with a Maytag washing machine at Harvester Farm. |
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Description: | View of a woman wearing an apron sitting on a stool and washing dishes at a kitchen sink. Kitchen utensils are hanging on the wall above her. |
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Description: | Woman washing dishes in a kitchen sink. Kitchen utensils are hanging on the wall and the cabinets are open, revealing cleaning supplies made by Lux, Bon Am... |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | Woman cleaning kerosene lamps on the front porch(?) of her house. |
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Description: | A woman dust mops the floor while listening to a radiophone that is perched on the window sill. |
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: | 11 07 1944 |
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Description: | Isomel Billings is using an old-fashioned broom, Lietzel Pelican and Patricia Cirves are operating a sausage grinder. The women are University of Wisconsin... |
Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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Description: | Three German prisoners of war are scrubbing their clothes on the cement floor of their barracks at a prisoner of war camp. The prisoners are engaged in agr... |
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Description: | CIO students doing kitchen duty at Highlander Folk School. Myles Horton helping. |
Date: | 04 01 1949 |
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Description: | Mrs. William B. (Rachel) Fisher, 733 Copeland Avenue, assembling the cleaning products she will use during spring house cleaning. A new bride, this is her ... |
Date: | 04 12 1949 |
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Description: | Young homemakers, Caroline Reierson, 615 Dennett Drive, and Arveda Kuhlmey, 713 Dennett Drive, experiment with a new culinary process for cooking meat. The... |
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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. |
Date: | 1939 |
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Description: | A woman irons clothing on an ironing board in a kitchen setting. She is standing in the middle of the room, surrounded by cabinets, a sink and mirror, and ... |
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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