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In addition, a number of officers brought their families, and a limited number of enlisted personnel brought wives who served as laundresses (typically four per company). en.wikipedia.org

If a laundress married a soldier, which happened frequently, he lived with her there. rapidcityjournal.com

She played largely uncredited roles, such as secretaries, laundresses and frontierswomen. en.wikipedia.org

There would finally be numerous servants, tailors, laundresses and their assistants, the messor, shepherds and cowherds for the farm, not to mention of residents of the hospital. en.wikipedia.org

In her tangled yarn bell, but laundress it did not and just angrily cursed. en.wikipedia.org

In his informal shingled cottages, there were usually double corridors for separate circulation, so that a guest never bumped into a laundress with a basket of bed linens. en.wikipedia.org

Servants living at the house in the 1860 census were a butler, cook, laundress and chambermaid. en.wikipedia.org

The hospital staff included both male and female attendants, a housekeeper, cook, laundress, housemaid, kitchen maid, porter, baker, engineer and stoker. en.wikipedia.org

A resourceful young woman, by the age of 17 she had established herself as a laundress and housekeeper. en.wikipedia.org

Four were women, one of whom tended to his household, and the other three were hired out as laundresses or house servants. en.wikipedia.org

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