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Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | The household staff (probably Swedish) for one family home, including laundresses, cooks, parlor maids, and scullery girls with their various work utensils... |
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. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | An apron-clad woman broiling hamburgers in the kitchen. |
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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... |
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 ... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Woman washing clothes outdoors with a washtub, washboard, wringer, clothespins and clothesline. |
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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... |
Date: | 05 12 1933 |
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Description: | Mrs. Wilson Mutchler of Stoners' Prairie farm at 2533 Mutchler Road, south of Madison, cooking soup on a woodstove. |
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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... |
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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. |
Date: | 09 13 1949 |
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Description: | Elderly woman making pancakes on griddle at wood burning stove. |
Date: | 03 18 1955 |
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Description: | Woman stirring the contents of an Osterizer blender that is sitting on the stove. |
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