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| Date: | 04 21 1957 |
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| Description: | An industrious family cleans their motorboat which is parked in the driveway. |
| Date: | 05 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Mother and daughter washing dishes together. |
| Date: | 05 26 1956 |
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| Description: | A boy kneeling down to scrub a pot that is resting in a basin of soapy water. |
| 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: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Ralph Warner's backyard and house. |
| Date: | 01 21 1953 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Harry Segerstrom, Cuba City, sitting while washing dishes at a sink, demonstrating efficient dish washing methods for people with limited physical abi... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 03 21 1955 |
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| Description: | Pat Farrell, with a broken right leg, polishes silver while confined to the house she shares with three other young women at 2253 Rugby Row. |
| Date: | 07 07 1956 |
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| Description: | The featured kitchen utility room area at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nic J. Schmitz at 607 Farwell Drive is on the third annual benefit tour of the Attic Ang... |
| Date: | 03 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Roland and Winnie Delamater, who were both seriously physically handicapped by cerebral palsy since birth, hanging up the wash in their basement. The coupl... |
| Date: | 03 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Winnie Delamater and her daughter Sandra, age 6, use carpet sweepers to clean in their home. Winnie and her husband Roland were both seriously physically h... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Woman and four children seated in front of a makeshift tent that serves as their home. There is a washtub and washboard in the foreground and laundry hangs... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Young man and a dog in the yard outside a dilapidated shack in the woods that serves as a dwelling. Laundry hangs from a line at left. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Interior portrait of a man sitting at a kitchen table adjusting his homemade telescope. His wife is washing dishes behind him. Open shelves on the wall dis... |
| Date: | 04 24 1957 |
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| Description: | Russell Mitchell and his wife, 411 W. Dean Avenue, discuss spring cleaning chores. He is on the ground beneath a window that she is leaning out of with a d... |
| Date: | 04 24 1958 |
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| Description: | Kathleen Russell, right, Iowa County home agent, with Mrs. John Harrison looking at draperies made by her for her new home. |
| 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. |
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