Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | The household staff (probably Swedish) for one family home, including laundresses, cooks, parlor maids, and scullery girls with their various work utensils... |
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Description: | Woman washing dishes in a kitchen sink. Kitchen utensils are hanging on the wall and the cabinets are open, revealing cleaning supplies made by Lux, Bon Am... |
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Description: | Five women pose for a group portrait in front of a painted backdrop with various household articles such as an iron, feather duster, platter, cup, pitcher,... |
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Description: | A studio portrait of six women posing in front of a painted backdrop. They are holding household items including an iron, knife, potato, dustpan, broom, pi... |
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Description: | Two women stand for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing aprons over their long dresses and are holding hands. |
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Description: | Studio portrait of two women sitting in front of three standing women, all holding household items, including: pie, iron, cup, towel, platter, and glasses.... |
Date: | 10 08 1950 |
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Description: | Sydney S. Miller, manager of the Madison Social Security Office, shares a 1950 government-issued booklet explaining a program to employers of household wor... |
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Description: | Amateur painting by Eleanor R. Craighill. Representing a woman in an apron and hat polishing(?) a pot in front of the kitchen fireplace in the Governor's P... |
Date: | 08 1927 |
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Description: | A woman stooping to remove an electrical cord from in front of a vacuum cleaner. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | A brother and sister use an Eau Claire steam pressure machine to run their canning business. |
Date: | 10 1923 |
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Description: | Mrs. Granere using a Maytag wringer and two metal rinsing buckets to wash clothing on the International Harvester demonstration farm. |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | A woman wearing a dress and apron is using an "Easy Model H" wringer washing machine made by the Syracuse Washer Corporation. |
Date: | 1926 |
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Description: | Woman working in kitchen straining jelly bags over pot in preparation for canning. The photograph was taken at an "IHC Farm," probably in Hinsdale, Illinoi... |
Date: | 07 23 1926 |
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Description: | Woman in kitchen demonstrating the canning process. Original caption reads, "pail and wire rack for cold pack canning." The photo was taken at Harvester Fa... |
Date: | 10 1927 |
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Description: | Woman wearing an apron and identified as Anne Jilk is posing with a can of beans to demonstrate the testing of canned food. |
Date: | 1923 |
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Description: | A woman using a foot-pedal sewing machine while working with a piece of fraying fabric. |
Date: | 10 1923 |
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Description: | Mrs. Waggoner using a Coffield electric washing machine and wringer to launder clothing on International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm (Harvester ... |
Date: | 10 1923 |
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Description: | Mrs. Guener washing dishes while sitting on a stool attached to a sink in J.O. Waggoner's home. |
Date: | 10 1923 |
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Description: | Mrs. Granere starting a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine in order to power a Maytag washer. |
Date: | 10 1923 |
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Description: | Mrs. Granere using a washing machine powered by a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm (Harveste... |
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