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Dining Room at Power Dam Camp

Date: 05 28 1913
Description: Power dam construction workers pausing during a meal in the camp dining room. Oil lamps are hanging from the ceiling; overhead electric lights are also ins...
Photograph

Logging Crew at Supper

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Description: Interior view of a dining hall filled with a large logging crew, at dinner.
Photograph

Carson Gulley, Caterer

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Description: Carson Gulley, the well-known University of Wisconsin-Madison chef, serving a catered meal at the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed First Unitarian Society Meeti...
Poster

Pacific Railway Pullman's Palace Dining Car Poster

Date: 1900
Description: An original colored lithograph advertising the Pacific Railway's route from New York to California, encouraging people to "Go and See the Great American Pa...
Photograph

Memorial Union Smorgasbord

Date: 04 03 1951
Description: Raymond Rowley, roasting and meat chef, carves one of the twelve turkeys prepared for the Smorgasbord at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union.
Photograph

Memorial Union Smorgasbord

Date: 04 03 1951
Description: Paul Cleary gets instructions on how to decorate a baked ham from head chef Maurice Comos for the Smorgasbord at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union...
Photograph

Confections For Any Occasion — Interior

Date: 03 21 2003
Description: Proprietor Joel Bernhard joins the picture. This is the 200th fish fry that the group participated in. Andrea Hanson, second from the left, wrote an articl...
Photograph

Logging Camp Dining Room

Date: 1900
Description: Ten men sitting and standing around tables set with dishes and food in the dining room of the Vinette logging camp.
Print

Bookbinders Sea Food House Menu

Date: 07 15 1961
Description: Menu from Bookbinders Sea Food House. The cover features an illustration of a fisherman holding a net with a boat in the background, framed by a border of ...
Postcard

Wire Grass Men

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard of a group of men and boys gathered for a meal in a tent. There are benches along the sides of the table. One man sits on a wooden bo...
Print

L'Etoile Restaurant Taliesin Reception Menu

Date: 06 30 1999
Description: Menu for a reception at L'Etoile Restaurant for the School of Organic Farming and Cooking at Taliesin, with the school logo and a background photograph of ...
Print

National Peace Jubilee Banquet Menu

Date: 10 19 1898
Description: Front cover, first illustration, and menu page for the "National Peace Jubilee Banquet tendered to The President of the United States and distinguished gue...
Book or Pamphlet

Old Settlers' Club Banquet Menu

Date: 02 22 1899
Description: Front cover and menu page of the Old Settlers' Club annual banquet, with a man wielding an axe and chopping down a tree. A log cabin stands in the woods be...

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