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| Date: | 09 30 1963 |
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| Description: | The "old stone barn" built by the Reeds as early settlers, now used by a member of the city police department as a family residence. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Ralph Warner's backyard and house. |
| 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: | Woodblock print of an urban street scene with a clothesline strung between buildings, and a church and a hamburger joint. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Future District Court Judge William Sachtjen, wearing an apron and holding a broom. He is standing behind a 7-Up sign. Sachtjen worked at Droster's Grocery... |
| Date: | 10 01 1938 |
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| Description: | J. Robert Taylor cleaning a furnace. He has a broom and a small brush in hand, a pipe in his mouth, and a dirty rag placed on his head. He is reading a doc... |
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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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A small girl using a Mogul Junior 1 HP stationary engine to power a washing machine located on the porch of a house. There is a cream separator on the left... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A woman standing on the back porch of a home uses a Mogul stationary engine to power a washing machine. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Clothes hanging and drying on clotheslines in front of migrant workers' barracks. Libby McNeil and Libby Company was a major employer of migrant farm worke... |
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| Description: | Two women, two men, and two girls standing in front of a wooden house (probably the backyard), near a clothesline with drying wash. Two boys are standing o... |
| Date: | 08 29 1961 |
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| Description: | Street view of a ranch-style house with a person on the roof who appears to be hanging laundry on a television aerial. |
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