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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." |
| 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: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | Backyard drive and landscaping of a house. Laundry is hanging on the line in the background on the left. |
| Date: | 04 23 1926 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress, hat, and stockings uses a mop and bucket to wash a damaged wooden porch attached to a farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A woman carrying two metal buckets full of water away from a well pump near the porch of a farm house. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Clothing hanging on a clothesline strung between a farmhouse and two small farm buildings. Corn and other crops are planted around the farmhouse. |
| Date: | 02 1915 |
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| Description: | Young African American woman sweeping front steps of a residence. Original caption reads: "the 'sedge brush' broom is used a great deal for light sweeping ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Clothing hanging on a line to dry in a farm yard. A pot of steaming water is in the foreground. A small open-sided farm building is behind a fence with a g... |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Rags, discarded shoes, empty bottles and food cans littering the space surrounding a rear entrance to a farmhouse. |
| 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: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Jake George standing on a wooden porch while using a foot pedal to wring excess water from a mop. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View of a woman wearing a plaid dress standing outdoors hanging up clean laundry, specifically light-colored shirts and towels, on the clothesline. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A flock of purebred Shropshire ewes standing near a fence on the farm of Geo. Martin. In the background is a farmhouse with laundry on the line, a farm bui... |
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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: | 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: | Eight men are posing outside the porch of a cottage which is surrounded by trees. There are blankets and clothes hanging on the clothesline. A work table w... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Lilia Suckow, a student at Peck School, works in a tulip bed outside her house. Clothes dry on a line behind the house. |
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