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Beer and Sweet Corn

Date: 08 24 1968
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kress, dressed in lederhosen, enjoy beer and sweet corn at the Mid-summer Festival.
Photograph

Family at Dining Table

Date: 1890
Description: Family gathered at the dining table.
Drawing

Potawatomi Indians Cooking

Date: 
Description: Illustration of three Potawatomi Indians cooking.
Photograph

First Thanksgiving

Date: 
Description: Thanksgiving dinner between Native Americans and early Pilgrim settlers in America.
Photograph

Woman Cutting Carrots

Date: 1920
Description: A young woman wearing an apron smiles as she slices a carrot into a pan.
Photograph

Parching Wild Rice

Date: 1907
Description: A Chippewa woman parching wild rice in Lac Vieux Desert. Lac Vieux Desert is a 4200 acre Michigan-Wisconsin boundary water in Vilas County.
Photograph

Creek Woman Pounds Meal

Date: 
Description: A Creek woman pounds meal outside.
Photograph

Hopi Women Cooking

Date: 
Description: Hopi women cooking.
Print

State Fair Handbill

Date: 1929
Description: Printed color handbill that advertised the special events of the Wisconsin State Fair. The illustration shows a woman bearing a platter of produce.
Photograph

Miners at Diner

Date: 
Description: Zinc miners at tables in the dining hall near.
Book or Pamphlet

36 - Woman Feeding Angora Rabbits

Date: 1943
Description: Woman feeding angora rabbits in their hutches.
Photograph

Plucking Chickens

Date: 
Description: Some unidentified people plucking chicken feathers at an unidentified location.
Photograph

Highlander Kitchen Scene

Date: 
Description: A group of women working on hard boiled eggs in the Highlander kitchen. Betty Shipherd on right, Antioch student on left.
Photograph

Woman Frying Bacon

Date: 1939
Description: Mrs. Baltes frying bacon for the children at Kiddie Camp, 3910 Mineral Point Rd.
Photograph

Flora van Brink Hony Bader (nee Melkman) in Amsterdam

Date: 1946
Description: Left to right: friend Sophie, Josef and Flora van Brink Hony Bader (nee Melkman) in their home in Amsterdam. The tablecloth was made by Mrs. Bader and retu...
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland

Date: 1951
Description: Marjean Czerwinski of Milwaukee, the 1951 Alice in Dairyland, poses eating an ice cream cone with a young boy and girl.
Photograph

Group Seated at Table

Date: 1900
Description: A group of men, women, and children, including Nettie Fowler McCormick sitting at a table outdoors. A dog is standing in the foreground, and tea cups and c...
Photograph

Women in the Hops Field

Date: 
Description: A group of women posing amidst the hops plants in a field. Most of the women are wearing hats, aprons, and dresses. Some have picnic baskets and many are e...
Poster

Green Lantern Eating Cooperative

Date: 11 27 1970
Description: Poster advertising the Green Lantern Eating Cooperative on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. In addition to being an eating cooperative, The Gree...
Photograph

Registering at the Health Center

Date: 
Description: Women, who are accompanied by their children, register at the Health Center. On the walls are displayed posters on health and food.

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