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| Description: | Two women are standing on the small porch outside an open kitchen door, near implements used for daily household tasks such as washing, scrubbing, sweeping... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Woman washing clothes outdoors with a washtub, washboard, wringer, clothespins and clothesline. |
| Date: | 02 20 1915 |
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| Description: | A woman and boy are using "sedge brush" brooms to sweep a dirt yard as two women — possibly social workers or Agricultural Extension employees — look on. A... |
| Date: | 04 1923 |
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| Description: | Woman carrying a bucket of water back to her farmhouse in winter. |
| Date: | 10 18 1984 |
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| Description: | Young boy and girl make the autumn chore of leaf-raking fun. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Henry Bigalk relaxes in a wheelbarrow holding an axe in his left hand, while Emil Kuney (Keune) is grabbing the wheelbarrow handles as if to transport Biga... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A boy is standing at the entrance to a teepee. He is dressed in Native American clothing, and is holding an axe. |
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| Description: | The G. Thompson family posing in front of their wooden house. One woman is sitting at a sewing machine working on a quilt while another is working at a kn... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A family is sitting around a table with a stereoscope on it. An upright and wing frame house with a stone foundation is behind them. The woman has a large ... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | A group of men posing in the yard of the Tonyawatha House, later the Tonyawatha Spring Hotel, with paddles and carpentry tools. The hotel is a frame bracke... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Young woman, possibly a University of Wisconsin student, whittling while seated outdoors on a cellar doorway or bulkhead. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | A family is posing in the yard of a farmhouse near the porch. A child is sitting in a baby buggy. Farm buildings, farm implements, wagons and people are in... |
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| Description: | View of the exterior of the carriage house in the spring or summer, with miscellaneous tools and other items littered throughout the yard. A wooden stairwa... |
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| Description: | The G. Thompson family poses in front of their wooden house. One woman sits at a sewing machine working on a quilt while another works at a knitting machin... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A family sits around a table with a stereoscope on it. An upright and wing frame house with a stone foundation is behind them. The woman has a large doll l... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | A group of men pose in the yard of the Tonyawatha House, later the Tonyawatha Spring Hotel with paddles and carpentry tools. The hotel is a frame bracket s... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View down driveway towards a farm family posing in front of their farmhouse and farm buildings. An older man and woman are sitting. Three women are standin... |
| Date: | 04 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Lillian Helfrecht raking her lawn with the help of her neighbor, six-year-old George Armstrong. George helped Mrs. Helfrecht with various chores becau... |
| Date: | 08 31 1927 |
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| Description: | Samuel Hightower(sp?) stands in a grassy yard and holds up a cradle for harvesting grain. |
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| Description: | A man using a whetting stone to sharpen a scythe in a backyard. |
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