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| Description: | Two women stand outside the doorway of a log house in winter. They are posed with a washtub, broom and dust pan. |
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| Description: | View of a woman wearing an apron sitting on a stool and washing dishes at a kitchen sink. Kitchen utensils are hanging on the wall above her. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Bertha Gesell washing doll clothes in a wooden tub. Clothes are on a clothesline behind her. Her doll sit... |
| 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: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Man looking at the camera while he is washing clothes in a washtub. He is wearing a sleeveless shirt and pants with suspenders while he does the laundry. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View of a woman wearing a plaid dress standing outdoors hanging up clean laundry, specifically light-colored shirts and towels, on the clothesline. |
| 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: | 05 1902 |
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| Description: | Florence Christian carrying the cleaned laundry of Paul C. Goetsch in a large basket on her head while walking barefoot through a garden. |
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| Description: | Two women are standing next to wash basins indoors. Behind them are two closed doors and a coat rack. In the foreground is a teakettle. Caption reads: "Ell... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View from the lake of Miss Ransom washing clothes by hand, using lake water. Beside her on the pier is an enamel metal wash bowl. Archibald Lake is in the ... |
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