Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | Workers, mostly female, hanging bundles of sisal on wires on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The plantation was likely run by the International Harvester C... |
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Description: | Woman pumping water from a well near the porch of her farmhouse. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Woman cleaning a wooden floor in an open doorway of her farmhouse with a scrub brush. |
Date: | 10 1923 |
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Description: | Mrs. Granere wringing clothes with a Maytag washing machine at Harvester Farm. |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | Woman dumping wash water from a metal wash basin on the back step of her farmhouse. |
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: | 09 18 1929 |
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Description: | Three women working at Floralo Incense Company, located at 1212 Regent Street. The are tamping and boxing incense. |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Several people next to a building in a wooded area. Four people are pushing a large wooden bar on a piece of equipment with a rope. Perhaps they are pullin... |
Date: | 04 01 1949 |
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Description: | Mrs. William B. (Rachel) Fisher, 733 Copeland Avenue, assembling the cleaning products she will use during spring house cleaning. A new bride, this is her ... |
Date: | 1949 |
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Description: | Women wearing straw hats spread sisal fibers out to dry on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Native women are s... |
Date: | 1949 |
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Description: | Workers drying fiber at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Distributing fiber to dry from the trucks." |
Date: | 1949 |
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Description: | Female workers wearing straw hats spread fiber out to dry at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Native women are... |
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Description: | A view of the Coining Room, where women sit at long tables, weighing out metal. Each woman has a balance and other tools at her station. A male supervisor ... |
Date: | 1908 |
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Description: | Group of men and women laboring in a garden among rows of leafy vegetables. There is a farmhouse in the background. |
Date: | 11 25 1976 |
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Description: | People EW working with floats for a Thanksgiving Day Parade, either Macy's Parade in Manhattan, New York, or Gimbels' Parade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.... |
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Description: | Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell |
Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | Margaret McGuire, Alice in Dairyland, is perched on a stool watching a typesetter at The Highland Press. He is setting metal type by hand for the we... |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | Mrs. (Christine) Peterson and Mrs. Torgeson (a neighbor) are working in the upstairs loft of the barn. Christine is sitting in a chair using a spinning whe... |
Date: | 04 2000 |
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Description: | Relocation of Sid Boyum's sculpture, "Smiling Mushroom," to the public green space on the bike path at Atwood Avenue and Dunning Street. Lou Host-Jablonski... |
Date: | 1938 |
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Description: | A roomful of workers are cleaning seeds using "The Clipper Cleaners" manufactured by A.T. Ferrell & Co., Saginaw, Michigan. The machines are arranged in fo... |
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