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Photograph

Pouring Milk at the Wonder Spot

Date: 06 30 1957
Description: Nancy Waterman unsuccessfully pours milk for Harriet Anderson (whose name has since changed to Penny Hilley) at the Wonder Spot.
Photograph

Food Dehydrator

Date: 1944
Description: A woman wearing an apron is pulling a tray out from what appears to be a food dehydrator.
Photograph

Woman with Cook-Box

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Description: Woman in a long dress standing in kitchen with cook-box, a device to facilitate consistent results in cooking. There is a sideboard on the right.
Photograph

Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Group Posing Outdoors

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Description: A Ho-Chunk group dressed in regalia standing behind an elderly woman, sitting, and child who is standing. The man with the rifle has an appliqué blanket wr...
Photograph

Canning Chicken

Date: 05 1924
Description: Helen Holden using a pair of tongs to remove a can of chicken from a metal container on Holden Poultry Farm.
Photograph

Woman Baking

Date: 1920
Description: A woman wearing a uniform and cloth hat is siftting flour into a bowl in a kitchen. Her dress has buttoned-on cuffs on the sleeves. The table in front of h...
Photograph

Woman Baking Bread

Date: 1920
Description: A woman wearing a uniform and cloth hat is kneading bread dough on a board on a wooden table. Her dress has buttoned-on cuffs on the sleeves. A flour sifte...
Photograph

Baker's Dozen Bread Club

Date: 07 1923
Description: Miss Marilla Zearling demonstrating a bread-making technique to members of the Baker's Dozen Bread Club.
Drawing

Costume Design for Alma Brown in "Hud"

Date: 1963
Description: A pencil drawing of of a costume for Patricia Neal as Alma Brown in the film "Hud". The woman in the drawing is wearing a dress, apron, and low shoes, and ...
Photograph

Northern Wisconsin Center Home Economics Class

Date: 1930
Description: Slightly elevated view of six women wearing aprons learning domestic skills in a kitchen classroom. Two women on the left stand at a sink washing dishes, t...
Photograph

088 - Campers Eating Camp Meal Near Campfire

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Description: Group of campers under trees near a lake eating from metal dishes next to a campfire. A few of the campers are relaxing, and some appear to be washing the ...
Historical Object

107 - Outdoor Cooking Methods

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying four photographs. Each photograph depicts cooking at a campfire, with meat cooking on wood spits, atop a metal s...
Photograph

Mrs. Wilbur (Helen) Renk

Date: 05 28 1964
Description: Mrs. Helen Renk, Rt. 2, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, is shown in her kitchen. Mrs. Renk is submitting a favorite recipe for possible "election" into the Wiscons...
Photograph

Men Draining Water from Large Pot

Date: 1914
Description: Two men in a muddy yard are bending over and holding onto a large pot while draining water out of it into a trench in the ground. Behind them is a bicycle ...
Photograph

Women with Display of Canned Vegetables

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Description: Group portrait of young women standing on a porch around a shelf displaying canned vegetables, and jars of vegetables. Some of the jars have ribbons on the...

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