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| Date: | 06 09 1933 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Mary DeRenzo, "Dean of the scrub women's crew" at the Wisconsin State Capitol, holding the mop she used for thirty years. |
| Date: | 07 14 1933 |
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| Description: | Five children are washing dishes at the Dorothy Roberts nursery school at the University of Wisconsin Home Economics practice cottage. |
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| Description: | Front view of Science Hall, looking west down Langdon Street on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A horse-drawn laundry vehicle is visible at the... |
| Date: | 10 25 1934 |
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| Description: | Delivery truck for Pantorium Cleaners, 558 State Street, with Hanks mansion, located at 525 Wisconsin Avenue, in the background among trees. |
| Date: | 06 09 1933 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of eight Wisconsin State Capitol scrubwomen. Left to right: Mrs. Mary DeRenzo, Mrs. Elizabeth Weddig, Miss Mary McCloskey, Mrs. Ingeborg Sid... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Competitors in the Southern Wisconsin Junior Livestock Exposition washing their animals outdoors before the judging. |
| Date: | 04 21 1965 |
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| Description: | Professional painters inside the state capitol employed by Hoffer's Certified Paint of 3501 E. Washington Avenue. A paint can is labeled "Hoffer One Coat H... |
| Date: | 05 24 1959 |
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| Description: | Mrs. E.J. Wirka is shown hosing down her car in preparation for a spring washing. |
| Date: | 07 01 1949 |
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| Description: | Bing Moy presses shirts at the steam press at Moy's Laundry, 112 N. Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 03 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Roland and Winnie Delamater, who were both seriously physically handicapped by cerebral palsy since birth, hanging up the wash in their basement. The coupl... |
| Date: | 05 14 1937 |
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| Description: | Clerk and customer at Savidusky's cleaners, located at 113 Monona Avenue. |
| Date: | 04 01 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. William B. (Rachel) Fisher, 733 Copeland Avenue, washing windows in the family home. A new bride, this is her first spring cleaning. |
| Date: | 09 24 1953 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Spic and Span dry cleaning store in the new Madison East Shopping Center on East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 02 1978 |
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| Description: | View of a downtown street featuring bars, restaurants, and a laundromat. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of Savidusky's Dye House Company, State, Paint and Paper Company, Schadauer's China Shop, a drygoods store and Chop Suey Restaurant. The view also inc... |
| Date: | 11 07 1953 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters standing on the roof of Quality Service Laundry at 1202 Regent Street as smoke is billowing out from below. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View from street looking towards the facade of the Alford Brothers Laundry located at 113-115 Carroll Street. This was a large business with twenty-five em... |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards a man washing his car in the alley of a neighborhood. Rooftops are in the background. |
| Date: | 05 18 1989 |
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| Description: | Silhouetted profile of a man looking up and spraying part of a structure with vertical and diagonal support beams with a spray gun. Caption reads: "Tim Joh... |
| Date: | 11 17 1936 |
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| Description: | Refurbished facade of Madison Theatre, 111 Monona Avenue. The building includes the temporary quarters of Savidusky's Cleaners and Dyers. |
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