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| Early household dishwasher manufactured by Hydro-Electric Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, c. 1930. (Museum object #1997.35.1A-D) |
| Pioneer in Home Economics |
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| This woman served as the first female professor at Kansas State Agricultural College. Read about her role as state leader of the Home Economics Extension. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Lilia Suckow, a student at Peck School, works in a tulip bed outside her house. Clothes dry on a line behind the house. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Exterior view across yard of a two-story house with a barn built adjacent to it. Two people are standing near the door of the house. In the yard is a woode... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Woman and four children seated in front of a makeshift tent that serves as their home. There is a washtub and washboard in the foreground and laundry hangs... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Young man and a dog in the yard outside a dilapidated shack in the woods that serves as a dwelling. Laundry hangs from a line at left. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Young housewife wearing apron, leaning forward and looking down. Photograph for the extension project of the International Harvester Co. of Chicago. |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of an unidentified man and two women posing standing on the porch of a wooden house. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two girls cleaning. One is carrying a basket while another holds a large fan-shaped object which was used like a broom. The description in the lower right ... |
| Date: | 03 25 1961 |
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| Description: | One of twenty four images of women visiting the University of Wisconsin Home Economics Department. |
| Date: | 08 29 1961 |
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| Description: | Street view of a ranch-style house with a person on the roof who appears to be hanging laundry on a television aerial. |
| Date: | 06 15 1961 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Richard Sroda, a public information specialist with the 32nd Division, was the photographer and Sp4 David Gordon, public information specialist for th... |
| Date: | 05 12 1964 |
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| Description: | Marie Ackley is sweeping the floor of the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lund. She is working as a health aide in a new Visiting Nurse Service program an... |
| Date: | 05 12 1964 |
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| Description: | Marie Ackley gives the kitchen of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lund a woman's touch while Mr. Ackley prepares dinner. Mrs. Ackley works as a health aide in a new Vi... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Interior portrait of a man sitting at a kitchen table adjusting his homemade telescope. His wife is washing dishes behind him. Open shelves on the wall dis... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View across yard towards James Peterson playing with a cat. In the background, laundry is hanging on a clothesline and beehives are standing at the edge of... |
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| Description: | Inga sitting in a chair in a kitchen with her feet up on the table. She has a cigarette in one hand a drink in the other, and is wearing a scarf over curle... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Howard and Jack Greene doing laundry in Lake McFarland. |
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| Description: | Ektachrome postcard of a mannequin of a women wearing period dress ironing in the summer kitchen. Dried corn is strung up near the ceiling. Text on reve... |
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