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Amund and Siri Rustebakke and Women with Spinning Wheels

Date: 1873
Description: Amund Rustebakke, standing in doorway, and Siri Rustebakke, center, sitting, in front of a house with her daughters and daughter-in-law and four spinning w...
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Norwegian Church Supper

Date: 1959
Description: Women preparing food for an annual Norwegian church supper at the Trinity Lutheran Church.
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Italian Woman Preparing Sarsa

Date: 1941
Description: Loretta Falci (Lorenzina Fiocco Falci), an Italian woman, preparing sarsa, tomato paste on boards on the porch of her home, 622 Milton Street, as she holds...
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Mary Ellen Nevin and her Sister

Date: 1897
Description: Interior of the kitchen at 12 North Broom Street, the residence of James and Mary Ellen Nevin, showing Mrs. Nevin and her sister cooking. James Nevin was ...
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Hommels Cooking School

Date: 11 24 1933
Description: View from center aisle of Hommel's Cooking School set up on the Parkway Theater stage, 6-10 W. Mifflin Street. Displayed is a layout of the cooking demonst...
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Reverend A. Jacobsen and Family

Date: 1877
Description: Stereograph of Rev. A. Jacobson, family and visitors, Perry, Wis." from Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." Jacobson (1836-1910) immigrated to t...
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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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Cooking Class for Males

Date: 04 03 1933
Description: A class of males at work on kitchen activities.
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Pioneer Living Room

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Description: A collection of pioneer household articles arranged in a living room.
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Brand New Oven

Date: 1950
Description: Woman displays a brand new oven/stove.
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Mini Bar

Date: 1950
Description: Mini bar with refrigerator and glassware.
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Infant with Grandmother

Date: 1950
Description: A young child examines a children's book with her grandmother.
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Woman in Kitchen

Date: 1950
Description: Woman pouring a cup of coffee.
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Woman with Oven

Date: 1950
Description: A woman displays an oven.
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Kitchen

Date: 1950
Description: A woman poses her kitchen with all of the modern conveniences.
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Harry S. Manchester's, Inc., Can Opener Window Display

Date: 05 03 1946
Description: Window display at Harry S. Manchester's, Inc., 2-6 East Mifflin Street, featuring the "Can-o-mat" can openers, "Can-o-mat, fully automatic, streamlined bea...
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Taste Test at Oscar Mayer

Date: 10 16 1945
Description: Slightly elevated view of men and women sitting around a table, sampling slices of Oscar Mayer meat products in the Oscar Mayer laboratory. A women in a lo...
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Test Kitchen and Laboratory at Oscar Mayer

Date: 10 16 1945
Description: Slightly elevated view of five women researchers performing various aspects of food research and related activities in a test kitchen and laboratory at the...
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State Building & Grounds Retirees Dinner

Date: 01 25 1944
Description: Group portrait of those in attendence at a dinner to honor 14 retiring employees of the Division of Buildings and Grounds of the Wisconsin Bureau of Engine...
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Mueller and Helminiak Wedding

Date: 02 05 1944
Description: Group portrait of twelve people sitting around the table at the Jeanne Mueller and Leonard Helminiak wedding dinner at the Madison Club.

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