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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 ...
Photograph

Table Settings

Date: 08 03 1954
Description: Louise Brown's table is set with a tablecloth that her husband bought back from Brittany, France and plates depicting native French birds.
Photograph

Table Settings

Date: 08 03 1954
Description: Cecelia Maas created a table setting with a wild fowl theme. Walter and Cecelia love to hunt and to serve wild game when they entertain.
Photograph

Table Settings

Date: 08 1954
Description: Table decorations created by Matha Hart in a formal summer style.
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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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Wisconsin State Journal Staff Luncheon Prize Winning Recipes

Date: 10 07 1957
Description: A person's hand holding a ladle is dipping into one of two crocks of seafood casserole (wild rice and fish) on a table decorated with place settings and a ...
Book or Pamphlet

Menus and Recipes for School Lunches

Date: 02 15 1946
Description: Front cover, frontispiece photograph, and page from a publication of the State Board of Health, with half silhouette views of three seated children with mi...
Print

Fireside Pancake House Menu

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Description: Foldout menu from Fireside Pancake House, with a woman in a cap, long dress, and apron, stirring batter in a bowl, standing by a hearth with a pot suspende...
Print

Goff's Restaurant Menu

Date: 01 16 1958
Description: Dinner and children's menu from Goff's Restaurant, with two illustrations of a woman in an apron filling a coffee cup: in the one accompanying 1893, when t...
Print

Gridiron Club Menu

Date: 12 09 1950
Description: Gridiron Club menu, mounted on board, with a cartoon by Jim (James Thomas) Berryman of club president Tom Stokes in suit and tie, chef's toque, pleated apr...
Print

Robbie's Yodel Club Menu

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Description: Front cover and middle menu pages from Robbie's Yodel Club in the New Glarus Hotel, with a sign featuring the restaurant logo's three figures: one holding ...
Book or Pamphlet

Daughters of Isabella Wedding Menu

Date: 1941
Description: Front cover and silver and golden wedding menu suggestion page from the Daughters of Isabella, Our Lady of the Lake Circle No. 369, with a cross and a crow...
Historical Object

107 - Outdoor Cooking Methods

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying four photographs. Each photograph depicts cooking at a campfire, with meat cooking on wood spits, atop a metal s...
Print

Fox and Hounds Restaurant Dinner Menu

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Description: Front cover, bar menu, and trifold overleaf illustration from the Fox and Hounds Restaurant. On the cover is an illustration of the restaurant's wooden pla...
Print

Hotel Noble Menu

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Description: Front covers of gate fold Hotel Noble menu, with two "hillbilly" figures: one stands barefoot and holds a rifle while a dog sleeps at his feet; the other i...
Print

Hotel Noble Menu Interior

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Description: Interior of the Hotel Noble menu, with spot illustrations: a chicken on a platter; a man reclines with his hat over his face, a snoozing chicken on his che...
Photograph

Activities of Firemen at the Central Fire Station

Date: 01 20 1954
Description: Harold Hansen (left) and Fred Manthe making chili for the firemen's dinner. Hansen is standing next to the stove stirring a deep pot with one hand, and is ...

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