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Christmas Customs

Date: 12 14 1953
Description: Hannah Heegaard-Jensen demonstrates a Christmas tradition by frying ableskivers on Christmas Eve.
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Talking Dog

Date: 01 07 1954
Description: Sandy the talking dog is shown with his owner Lillian (Mrs. Charles) Bran.
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Red Cross Blood Recipient

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: Portrait of Knut Torgrimsen, lathe operator at Ohio Chemical & Surgical Equipment Company and a surviving recipient of 30 pints of blood from the Red Cross...
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Outdoor Cooking

Date: 06 09 1954
Description: Stanley V. Kubly preparing a steak on a grill while his family is looking on. Watching, from left to right, are Dan, 12; Trudi, 17; and Stan's wife, Evelyn...
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Outdoor Cooking

Date: 06 09 1954
Description: Doctor Lawrence V. Littig cooking a steak on a grill while his wife Sally and seven-year-old son Norman look on.
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Sunnyside School

Date: 09 01 1954
Description: Cook Mrs. Clara Lehr and her assistant Mrs. Betty Hungate preparing lunch at Sunnyside School at 3902 East Washington Avenue.
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University of Wisconsin Football Pregame Party

Date: 10 26 1956
Description: Fern Thompson stands in her kitchen while preparing food for a University of Wisconsin football pregame party. She will be serving a chicken casserole, rol...
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University of Wisconsin Football Pregame Party

Date: 10 26 1954
Description: Mary Huber standing in her kitchen while fixing a molded jello salad in preparation for a University of Wisconsin football pregame party. She will be servi...
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Lake View Lutheran Lutefisk Dinner

Date: 11 10 1954
Description: Six women, some wearing aprons, preparing cakes while standing around a high table. Cakes and a stand mixer are on the table top. They are at Lakeview Ame...
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Part-Time Jobs for High School Students

Date: 12 01 1954
Description: Three Edgewood High School students work after school hours at Mickie's Dairy Bar on Monroe Street in Madison. From left are Frank Hebl, Frank's brother Bi...
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Delivery of Bread Right To Your Door

Date: 1939
Description: A woman standing on her doorstep buys bread from a deliveryman. His truck is parked in the driveway. Text on the truck reads "Capitol Bakers, 'Right' to yo...
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Portrait of Two Men

Date: 1930
Description: Full-length studio "gag" portrait of two men in front of a painted backdrop. The man on the right, James Gorman, is wearing work clothes, boots and hat and...
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Advertising Shapes American Life

Date: 02 14 1956
Description: Elmer Geishert, press operator at Kramer Business Service, examines a job on the Multilith office type offset press. Kramer performs many direct advertiser...
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University of Wisconsin Red Cross Fundraising Drive

Date: 03 12 1956
Description: University of Wisconsin Ph.D. student Peter E. Graf of Syracuse, New York does a laboratory experiment. He is a member of the Red Cross "Two Gallon Blood D...
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Newspaper Carriers' Breakfast

Date: 04 04 1956
Description: Madison Newspaper carrier boys were treated to a breakfast at Felly's Restaurant, 927 South Park Street. Seated at the lower table are Charles Peschel (bac...
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Men Who Cook

Date: 05 22 1956
Description: William H. Siemering stands in a kitchen grating cheese while wearing the traditional chef's apron, hat, and neckerchief. His specialty is "Eggs Wisconsin....
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Men Who Cook

Date: 05 22 1956
Description: Jack L. Savidusky stands in his yard wearing a chef's hat and apron while barbecuing his specialty, "Mexican Barbecued Beef." His son Michael, 11, looks on...
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Lincoln Day Dinner

Date: 01 29 1957
Description: Don Isabella, one of five volunteer chefs for the annual Lincoln Day celebration planned by the Dane County Republican club. Shown with him, left to right:...
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Career Girls Entertain

Date: 02 15 1957
Description: Jean Ziegler cooking spaghetti for a dinner party at her apartment at 122 East Gilman Street, Apt. 205.
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Home Economics Day

Date: 03 20 1957
Description: Mary Crain (right), home economist, teacher, dietician, and manager of the West High School cafeteria, supervises two of her students, Linda Gaarder and Al...

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