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| Date: | 05 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Eshe demonstrating the washing of laundry with a washboard, ringer and tub in front of a farm house. The original caption reads: "Washing with no impr... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Engraving of a woman carrying a bundle of clothing and standing with her back to the sea. Behind her other women are in the process of doing wash in the wa... |
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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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Group of women washing clothes by hand on a pier in a river in Russia. The scene may be near Lubertzy. |
| Date: | 05 23 1932 |
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| Description: | Baby Shirley Krueger watching from her carriage as her mother Elna Krueger is taking laundry off the clothesline. |
| Date: | 01 13 1956 |
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| Description: | Edna Kern washing the windows outside her house. A cat is lying on the lawn in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Curt Moore selling "one minute" washing machines to a farmer's wife. The washing machines are loaded in the back of an International "Red Baby" truck. The... |
| Date: | 05 16 1928 |
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| Description: | Woman washing clothes with a washing machine powered by a a McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 HP engine. |
| 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: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Houses by a stream in Zermatt, Switzerland. A woman is doing laundry (?) in the foreground. |
| Date: | 09 1923 |
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| Description: | Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) women cutting roots for medicine. A quilt hangs on a line in the background and a chicken walks near the women. |
| 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: | 12 09 1947 |
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| Description: | Annette Wellers, Whitewater, hurrying off to class while Mildred Benson, Stoughton, arrives with groceries at the front door of the University of Wisconsin... |
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| Description: | CIO students doing kitchen duty at Highlander Folk School. Myles Horton helping. |
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| Description: | A woman (possibly a member of the Weller family) sweeps a board sidewalk with a broom. On the left is the Weller home, and next to it is the Carl Lund hous... |
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| Description: | A woman washes clothes in a tub on the back steps of a farmhouse. In the background, clothes hang on a clothesline. |
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| Description: | Two women work in a garden. One of the women is picking vegetables, while the other woman hangs laundry. |
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