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Efficient Dishwashing
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Mrs. Harry Segerstrom, Cuba City, sitting while washing dishes at a sink, demonstrating efficient dish washing methods for people with limited physical abilities at the Heart Kitchen at the Madison Vocational and Adult School.
January 21, 1953
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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