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| Date: | 12 20 1944 |
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| Description: | A mechanic in the service department of Hefty Sales Corporation is preparing to do a complete overhaul of a washing machine. |
| Date: | 06 18 1947 |
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| Description: | Ed Gesteland, who is fourteen years old, is shown working on his Soap Box derby racer in the basement of his home at 4221 Wanetah Trail. Behind him, with h... |
| Date: | 10 08 1947 |
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| Description: | Man standing at an oven at the Memorial Union kitchen, University of Wisconsin-Madison. A person can be seen standing on the right with a camera or light. |
| Date: | 08 13 1948 |
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| Description: | A man vacuuming the back of a cow in a barn using a DAIRY-VAC machine. |
| Date: | 10 28 1948 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin home economics student Charlene Bishop, making pancakes in a laboratory. |
| Date: | 04 01 1949 |
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| Description: | William G. "Bill" Fisher, 733 Copeland Avenue, shares housecleaning tasks by cleaning, oiling and checking the family vacuum cleaner. |
| Date: | 04 07 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Robert C. Pittenger and son, Mike, examine a new electric dishwasher at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show in the East High School gymnasium. |
| Date: | 04 07 1949 |
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| Description: | Dorothy Lorenzen looks at several small kitchen appliances while she holds one of the earliest electric toasters at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Sh... |
| Date: | 04 07 1949 |
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| Description: | Mary C. Donahoe inspecting an antique gas range next to new model at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show in the East High School gymnasium. |
| Date: | 04 07 1949 |
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| Description: | Charles M. Mickelson is loading an automatic washer, with the companion dryer at the left, at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show in the East High Sc... |
| Date: | 10 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Randall Elementary School kindergartners are shown making applesauce under the supervision of their teacher Marguerite Drew. Stirring the pot is Patty Hurl... |
| Date: | 03 12 1951 |
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| Description: | Dorothy Stephenson presses the tie for her scout uniform prior to the Senior Girl Scout Conference of Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois. She is a se... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Clara Middleton sits with a dog and rabbit on her lap in what may be a self-portrait. There is a daybed and treadle sewing machine in the background. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Forest Middleton, wearing a plaid dress, lectures his Teddy Bear, which is seated in a high chair. |
| Date: | 12 14 1953 |
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| Description: | Hannah Heegaard-Jensen demonstrates a Christmas tradition by frying ableskivers on Christmas Eve. |
| Date: | 03 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Carson Gulley, senior chef at the University of Wisconsin residence halls, putting on a cooking demonstration at the Loraine Hotel as part of a Norge home ... |
| Date: | 05 03 1954 |
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| Description: | Mary Heine wraps a bandage around the leg of her daughter Sally, age 8. The photograph was taken as part of a Mother's Day article featuring the many roles... |
| Date: | 11 10 1954 |
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| Description: | Stewardess Ruth Otto cleaning an apartment at 3160 East Washington Avenue which she shares with two other stewardesses. The photograph was taken to accompa... |
| Date: | 11 10 1954 |
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| Description: | Stewardess Coleen Ogle cooking in the apartment she shares with three other stewardesses. Art Kemp, first officer and co-pilot, is looking on. The photogra... |
| Date: | 08 14 1956 |
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| Description: | Margaret Klipstein bakes many cookies for her family. Part of the photo spread for the Wisconsin State Journal Centennial Cookbook Recipe Contest. |
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