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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...
Book or Pamphlet

Kentucky Advertising Cuts — Pumps, Saddles and Harness

Date: 1913
Description: Features at the top a black and white illustration of a woman standing and using a pump machine at a counter. Cut reads: "Pumps for House & Farm." The bott...
Photograph

Home Economics Class

Date: 1910
Description: Home economics students (all women) dressed in aprons, dresses, and hats, stand in rows at counters tending pots at the Winnebago County School of Agricult...
Photograph

Women Make Year's Supply of Lefsa

Date: 11 19 1954
Description: Mrs. Roy J. Nelson, 145 Marquette Street, is shown using a "floyve" stick to turn the lefsa while it bakes. She and her two sisters gathered at one of thei...
Photograph

Dane County Health Survey Meeting

Date: 03 1955
Description: Three ladies are standing in the kitchen while preparing the luncheon for those attending a planning meeting for the upcoming Dane County health survey. Sh...
Photograph

Cooking on the New Stove

Date: 1905
Description: A woman is stirring a pot on what looks like a new stove. It is a gleaming Acme, from Newark Stove Works. There is a warming closet in the top half. The ca...
Photograph

Alfred Lunt Coring Tomatoes

Date: 1949
Description: Alfred Lunt coring tomatoes in the kitchen at Ten Chimneys.
Photograph

Alfred and Lynn in the Summer Kitchen

Date: 1933
Description: Alfred Lunt stands at the edge of a table holding a beverage, near Lynn Fontanne who is sitting, in the kitchen of the cottage at their Ten Chimneys estate...
Photograph

Two Sisters Wed Two Brothers and Share House

Date: 08 04 1961
Description: Doris, left, and Helen Saalsaa working together preparing dinner in their ultra-modern kitchen, which they designed for two cooks.
Magazine or Periodical

Color-Keyed Door Handles — International Harvester Refrigerators

Date: 1951
Description: Advertisement for Color-Keyed Door Handles for International Harvester Refrigerators. Text includes the line "they're femineered!"
Photograph

Participant in Nursing Program for Married Women

Date: 05 11 1965
Description: Donna Osness with two of her daughters, preparing dinner for her family. One of a series of images about Donna, a mother of five children, who is participa...
Poster

International Harvester Refrigeration Advertisement

Date: 1953
Description: International Harvester Decorator Refrigerator advertisement featured in the Saturday Evening Post, Better Homes and Gardens, and Ladies' ...
Photograph

Mrs. MacLean

Date: 10 07 1965
Description: Probably a portrait of Mrs. MacLean in her kitchen, taken for the "Wisconsin State Journal" cookbook section published Oct. 17, 1965.
Photograph

Man Posing in Sid's Kitchen

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Description: A man is posing in profile in Sid's kitchen, carrying a bucket in his left hand and holding a towel over his right shoulder. On the wall in the background ...
Print

The New 1950 "Femineered" International Harvester Refrigerators

Date: 02 1950
Description: Advertising copy reads: "They're femineered! The new International Harvester 1950 refrigerators. Women dreamed them... home economists planned them." The i...
Photograph

Lewis Arms with Birthday Cake

Date: 1967
Description: Lewis Arms is holding a slice of his birthday cake, and is surrounded by three of his children. From left to right are Rita, Lewis, Mamie, and Paul.
Photograph

Appliance Show in Darlington, WI

Date: 03 06 1954
Description: Youngstown Kitchens appliance show sponsored by the Darlington Furniture Store held in the Darlington High School auditorium. A woman is demonstrating new ...
Photograph

Appliance Show in Darlington, WI

Date: 03 06 1954
Description: Crowd attending a Youngstown Kitchen appliances show sponsored by the Darlington Furniture Store held in the Darlington High School auditorium.
Photograph

"Rhapsody of Recipes" Cooking School

Date: 05 21 1957
Description: Ruth Hogan, a home economist with the National Livestock and Meat Board prepares a dish during a demonstration at the three-day "Rhapsody of Recipes" Cooki...
Photograph

I.P. Rumsey Reading in the Hammock at Island Lodge

Date: 08 20 1913
Description: I.P. Rumsey is reading a book while lying in the hammock on the porch at Island Lodge. A pillow is tucked under his head. He is dressed in a long sleeved s...

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