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| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | Woman washing clothes outdoors with a Dexter washing machine powered by a stationary McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 horsepower type "M" engine. Photograph taken a... |
| 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: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Front view of G.W. Peck's Store. The ground is covered with snow. The signs on the building read "Globe Steam Laundry" and the text below the photograph re... |
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| Description: | A woman hangs laundry on a clothesline in a yard. |
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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." |
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| Description: | View of two maids in aprons and bonnets hanging laundry out to dry in the yard of the Governor's Palace. The Palace can be seen in the background past tree... |
| 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: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of barnyard of crude shacks, a clothesline with clothing, a boiling cauldron, and a washtub with washboard set on a log. Ceramic jugs with holes in th... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View across wooded yard towards a woman leaning over a washtub using a washboard and to wash sheets. Sheets are drying on a clothesline and a washtub of bo... |
| Date: | 05 1923 |
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| Description: | A girl is using a hand-crank clothing wringer and washboard to do laundry outside a farmhouse on the John Eshe farm. |
| Date: | 08 16 1943 |
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| Description: | Private Clarence Charneski, Surgical Technician-Medical Detachment, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, takes an improvised outdoor shower under a bucket at a militar... |
| Date: | 11 30 1943 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Rough Raider Squadron Laundry, serving 100 customers a day. Eight soldiers can be seen, some working, some watching, and one soldier c... |
| Date: | 11 30 1943 |
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| Description: | Motor Pool Dispatchers Sergeant Alex Petro of Racine, Wisconsin, and Sergeant Joe Nicolazzi of Kenosha, Wisconsin, chat while waiting for their clothing at... |
| Date: | 11 30 1943 |
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| Description: | Corporal Jim Hiner of Lincoln Park, Michigan, hangs pants on a clothesline while on laundry duty at the Rough Raider Squadron Laundry, near Port Moresby, N... |
| Date: | 06 1913 |
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| Description: | Residence of Carl A. Johnson, a Madison industrialist and president of the Gisholt Machine Company. Located at 142 East Gilman Street, Johnson occupied the... |
| Date: | 07 1970 |
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| Description: | Linda Luna of Auraura, Illinois washes clothes at a basin outside a cabin in a migrant worker camp in Door County. Several articles of clothing are lying i... |
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