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Fudge Party

Date: 1890
Description: College students at the University of Wisconsin having a fudge-making party around a small gas burner.
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Doing Dishes

Date: 1920
Description: A woman washing dishes outdoors in a washtub.
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Farm Couple

Date: 1920
Description: Farm couple seated together outdoors on the lawn, his arm around her shoulders.
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Outdoor Chores

Date: 1920
Description: Woman doing chores outdoors.
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Snow-Covered State Street

Date: 1915
Description: Winter scene of the 500 block of State Street, north side, Madison, Wisconsin, with corner residence.
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Lucius Fairchild with Dinner Guests

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Description: Lucius Fairchild in his dining room with guests, one of which is GAR Commander-in-chief, General Bryant. Fairchild, a Republican, was the 10th governor of...
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Belle Case La Follette Working in the Garden

Date: 1907
Description: Belle Case La Follette hoeing the garden at Maple Bluff Farm in early spring. Two of her children are working with her, apparently planting seeds, and one ...
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Belle Case La Follette and Irvine Lenroot

Date: 1906
Description: Irvine Lenroot, a leader in the La Follette-Progressive wing of the Republican Party in Wisconsin, with Belle Case La Follette and Mary La Follette at Mapl...
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Mrs. Rennebohm Baking

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Description: Mary Fowler Rennebohm wearing an apron and sifting flour. Mrs. Rennebohm was the wife of Oscar Rennebohm, founder of the Rennebohm Drug Store chain and go...
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Winter Walk

Date: 1898
Description: Alice and Eleanor Brown with their nurse in front of 121 East Gilman Street. The three houses in the photo are 125 East Gilman, 133 East Gilman and 139 Ea...
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Infant on Porch at 121 East Gilman Street

Date: 1896
Description: Alice Brown on the porch of 121 East Gilman Street. Taken with a Kodak #2 camera.
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Living Room at 121 East Gilman Street

Date: 1948
Description: The living room of Fred and Annie Storer Brown's home, 121 East Gilman Street. The house was built in 1888.
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Carson Gulley Preparing Chickens

Date: 11 25 1942
Description: Navy cooks and bakers assisting a demonstration by Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef.
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Eugene A. Gilmore House

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Description: The Eugene A. Gilmore residence at 120 Ely Place. Known as the "Airplane House," it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1908.
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Beaded Baby Bonnet

Date: 1856
Description: Knitted baby bonnet made with tan cotton yarn and decorated with glass beads.
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Baby Booties

Date: 1905
Description: Baby booties knitted of pink wool yarn.
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Blue Baby Mittens

Date: 1827
Description: Baby mittens knitted of blue and white wool yarn.
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Child's Slippers

Date: 1900
Description: Child's slippers, with ribbon ties, knitted of ecru and blue wool yarn.
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Baby Mittens

Date: 1920
Description: Baby mittens knitted from off-white wool yarn.
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1010 Walker Court, Living Room

Date: 1918
Description: Jenkin Lloyd Jones, born Nov. 1, 1911, sleeping on the sofa in the living room of his parents, the Richard & Georgia Lloyd Jones, home 1010 Walker Court (n...

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