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Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T... |
Date: | 1899 |
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Description: | Grandma Martha (Goetsch) Buelke posed in front of a barn with her favorite cow. She is holding a milking pail. |
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Description: | Two women are standing on the small porch outside an open kitchen door, near implements used for daily household tasks such as washing, scrubbing, sweeping... |
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Description: | Elevated view of York Iron works. Large group of men posing in yard. The boardinghouse is on a hill in the far background. Early iron was mined at Mayville... |
Date: | 1959 |
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Description: | Women preparing food for an annual Norwegian church supper at the Trinity Lutheran Church. |
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Description: | Elevated view of lumber camp with loggers posing in front of a train loaded with logs. |
Date: | 1866 |
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Description: | Stereograph of woman, man and child outdoors on a farm with snow on the ground. The woman is wearing bloomers and is holding a bucket in the process of doi... |
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Description: | Helen Farnsworth Mears sitting on a ladder and resting her head against her hand. |
Date: | 1897 |
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Description: | Interior of the kitchen at 12 North Broom Street, the residence of James and Mary Ellen Nevin, showing Mrs. Nevin and her sister cooking. James Nevin was ... |
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Description: | The Gesell family in costume with broom, sword, and other props for a humorous picture. Family members identified as follows: Gerhard Jr. (drinking from pi... |
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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. |
Date: | 1933 |
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Description: | Female model posing with a rake next to a reproduction of Cyrus Hall McCormick's first reaper at International Harvester's "A Century of Progress" Worlds F... |
Date: | 02 20 1915 |
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Description: | A woman and boy are using "sedge brush" brooms to sweep a dirt yard as two women — possibly social workers or Agricultural Extension employees — look on. A... |
Date: | 04 1923 |
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Description: | Woman carrying a bucket of water back to her farmhouse in winter. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Eight nurses in uniform posing in front of a building (probably their workplace). Some of the women are holding a bedframe, pail, and a broom, and other it... |
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Description: | Two women try to knock each other off of their canoes while standing and swinging brooms at each other. |
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Description: | Ho-Chunk woman tanning a buckskin. Typical dwellings (chipotekes) are in the background. |
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Description: | Ho-Chunk woman tanning buckskin. Typical dwellings (chipotekes) are in the background. |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | Two students work in the nutrition lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
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