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Dreams Come True

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Description: Advertisement for International Harvester refrigerators and freezers. Depicts a woman wearing an apron over a dress standing near a freezer and refrigerato...
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Woman in Kitchen

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Description: Composite photograph/painting of a woman standing and pouring (fake) water into a cracked basin, with the water spilling onto the floor.
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Female Worker at Osborne Works Twine Mill

Date: 1910
Description: Female worker posing in protective apron and sleeves in front of a painted backdrop at International Harvester's Osborne Twine Mill. The Osborne Works was ...
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WWI Aerial Emblem

Date: 07 1917
Description: A factory worker painting the United States insignia on a bi-plane wing.
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Butcher with Tools of His Trade

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a butcher wearing an apron, and holding a cleaver and saw.
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Women Posing with Household Articles

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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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Women with Household Articles

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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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Portrait of Two Women Wearing Aprons

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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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Portrait of a Baker

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Description: A baker wearing a long apron holds two loaves of bread while posing for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop.
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Women Posing with Household Items

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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....
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Les Bentley

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Description: Portrait of artist, Lester Bentley, wearing an apron and sitting in his studio holding a brush, a pipe and a painters palette.
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Portrait of "La Vieille"

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Description: Portrait of a woman wearing a long dress and an apron. Text on photograph reads: "La Vieille."
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Portrait of Two Men

Date: 1930
Description: Full-length studio "gag" portrait of two men in front of a painted backdrop. The man on the right, James Gorman, is wearing work clothes, boots and hat and...
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Copy Photograph of a Studio Group Portrait of European American Family

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Description: Copy photograph of a studio group portrait of unidentified family in front of a painted backdrop. A woman is posing sitting in the center, with an older ma...
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Young Women Posing with Household Implements

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of seven European American women. Four of them are posing standing and three are posing sitting, with an inf...
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Studio Portrait of Lottie Porter Long

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young European American posing standing. She is wearing a light-colored dress and a bonnet. The woman i...
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Studio Portrait of European American Woman

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified woman with eyeglasses posing standing with her hands crossed, with a handbag ...
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Studio Portrait of Woman with a Rake

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of woman a posing standing and holding a rake with her right hand, and wearing a dark-colored dr...
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Women in White Smocks Posing with Kitchen Utensils

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait of women wearing long white smocks posing with kitchen utensils, baskets, cups, plates and flowers. The women are sitting on a table and cha...
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Women in White Smocks Posing with Kitchen Utensils

Date: 1900
Description: Women dressed in white smocks posing with kitchen utensils. The women are posing sitting and standing. A woman wearing a long skirt and a blouse is standin...

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