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| 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: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Woman cleaning kerosene lamps on the front porch(?) of her house. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Ada Bass sitting in a rocking chair reading, while her daughter Everetta is sweeping the front porch of the family home. |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Pages from a newspaper are scattered on a rug at the base of a rocking chair in a farmhouse living room. A radiator and bookcase are behind the chair. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Clothing lies on a bed, hangs from drawers, and sits on top of a dresser in an unorganized bedroom. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman moving a box full of firewood from the corner of the kitchen on the E.A. Bancroft farm. A woodstove is on the right. |
| Date: | 12 12 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Helen Young, housemother at the recently opened Ellsworth House, a residence for UW co-eds. The building, located at 422 North Murray Street, ... |
| Date: | 11 10 1954 |
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| Description: | Stewardess Ruth Otto cleaning an apartment at 3160 East Washington Avenue which she shares with two other stewardesses. The photograph was taken to accompa... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the kitchen area showing a table, cupboards, ice box, broom, and windows, in a cottage at Nature Lovers Paradise on Jackson Lake near Gran... |
| 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"... |
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| Description: | Inga sitting in a chair in a kitchen with her feet up on the table. She has a cigarette in one hand a drink in the other, and is wearing a scarf over curle... |
| 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: | 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: | 02 08 1921 |
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| Description: | Page from booklet with a photograph at top with caption that reads: "A class in Household Economics on the porch of one of the cottages." Caption for photo... |
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