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Bake Oven

Date: 08 24 1925
Description: An outdoor brick bake oven with utensils alongside. According to the photographer, these were "often used by the early taverns."
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Girl Scouts at Camp Greenwood on Picnic Point

Date: 07 06 1950
Description: Girl Scouts cook their "campfire stew" at Camp Greenwood, a day camp at Picnic Point for Intermediate Girl Scouts between the ages of 10 and 14. Pictured ...
Photograph

Stuffing Musky at Musky Jamboree

Date: 08 09 1972
Description: Two elderly women are stuffing and tying a musky with string before cooking it. The women are wearing buttons with an image of a musky that reads: "I am a ...
Poster

Add to Your Ration - By Home Canning!

Date: 1943
Description: Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 5, "Home Canning." The poster features a woman in a checkered apron pouring something from a cooking pan into a jar. ...
Photograph

Man in Winnebago County Asylum Kitchen

Date: 1930
Description: A man wearing an apron stands in a large kitchen located at the Winnebago County Asylum. Above him are pots and pans hanging from the ceiling. There is a l...
Book or Pamphlet

"Best War Time Recipes" Cook Book

Date: 1917
Description: World War I cook book featuring recipes low in sugar, wheat, and meat to accommodate wartime needs. Stamped on the front "Dane County Council of Defense, W...
Photograph

Restaurant Institute at Madison Vocational School

Date: 01 17 1951
Description: William Hovens of Trevor, Wisconsin, a student at the newly-opened Restaurant Institute at Madison Vocational School and a restaurent owner, mixing up a ba...
Photograph

Food Conservation Window Display

Date: 1917
Description: Display in an unknown storefront urging food conservation. The display features small figures made out of vegetables.
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Marshall Neilan and Marjorie Daw publicity still

Date: 1920
Description: Marshall Neilan, the director of Don't Ever Marry (1920), and Marjorie Daw, the female lead. Original caption: "NIX ON THE FANCY FOOD, SAYS MARSHA...
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Rolling Kitchen in France

Date: 09 16 1918
Description: Food being prepared on a moving kitchen for soldiers fighting in Sainte-Mihiel, France.
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Friendship Club Cook Book

Date: 12 10 1951
Description: Portrait of nine members of the Friendship Club, meeting to work on a cookbook. The Friendship Club is an interracial women's club, formed to develop mutua...
Photograph

Friendship Club Cookbook

Date: 12 15 1951
Description: Four members of the Friendship Club stand around a table while assembling a cookbook. Left to right, Mrs. Malcom Gordon, Gertrude Taliaferro, Mrs. William ...
Photograph

Boy Scouts Klondike Derby

Date: 01 13 1952
Description: Three boy scouts prepare soup over a campfire during the Boy Scout Klondike Derby at Glenway Golf Course.
Photograph

Oil Stove Accident Prevention

Date: 08 1927
Description: A woman wearing an apron pouring oil into a hot stove at the International Harvester Hinsdale experimental farm, illustrating a dangerous scenario for Inte...
Photograph

Knife Precautions

Date: 07 1927
Description: View from above of an open drawer revealing sharp knives mixed in with other kitchen utensils.
Photograph

Girls Making Lunch

Date: 1919
Description: Two girls mixing food in a bowl while preparing lunch at Sedan Prairie School. A poster reading: "Buy Liberty Bonds" is on the blackboard behind them, and ...
Photograph

Students Preparing Lunch in Classroom

Date: 1919
Description: Students sit at desks inside Sedan Prairie School while others stand in the back of the classroom to prepare lunch. The poster hanging on the back wall rea...
Photograph

Walkenhorst School Canning Club

Date: 1917
Description: A group of girls from the Canning Club of Walkenhorst School sitting and standing around a table outdoors to display their canned goods. A man wearing eyeg...
Photograph

School Kitchen in Iowa

Date: 10 30 1917
Description: Interior view of the school kitchen in the domestic science department at Orange Township Consolidated School.
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Canning Utensils

Date: 09 1915
Description: View of a table set with various utensils and supplies used in food canning.

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