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Women Washing Dishes

Date: 1912
Description: Two women are standing at a table in a kitchen, with one woman drying a dish, and the other washing dishes in a large bowl. Dishes and pans are stacked on ...
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Farmhouse Facade in Early Spring

Date: 1915
Description: View of a house surrounded by trees. Snow is on the ground, and the base of a windmill is on the right near the house.
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Madison Woman's Club Hobbies and Craft Show

Date: 01 26 1961
Description: Kitchen utensils of another era were on display at the Women's Club of Madison hobbies and craft show. The collector, Florence Middleton, second from the l...
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Madison Street Department Crew Cleaning Leaves from Gutter

Date: 10 21 1960
Description: A Madison street department crew cleans leaves from the gutter along Mandan Crescent using a leaf vacuum machine as neighborhood children watch. Workers ar...
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Emily Krahn

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Description: Two women pose with pots in a large kitchen. Caption reads: "madison. emily krahn retirs [sic] at yw [sic]."
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CUNA Cafeteria Workers Preparing First Meal

Date: 01 30 1960
Description: Friday was moving day for the CUNA Mutual Insurance Society. Moving all that heavy equipment, of course, is enough to give anyone an appetite. So Harry Van...
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Arthur O. Schroeder Home on Token Creek

Date: 10 04 1960
Description: Mrs. Arthur O. Schroeder in the kitchen of their home on Token creek.
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Women Cooking at Pageant

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Description: Two women in hats and dresses are stirring the contents of a cooking pot hanging on a tripod. Caption reads: "Stoughton, Wis. Pageant. Women in native cost...
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Farm House Filled with Antiques

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Description: A man stands in the open doorway of a house. Many tools hang on the outside wall. There is a fence on the left, and a large birdhouse is at the corner of t...
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Monkeys Escape Vilas Zoo

Date: 08 06 1960
Description: A zookeeper poses with a net and three large box traps. Thirty-eight Rhesus monkeys escaped from the basement of the Vilas zoo monkey house on August 4, 19...
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George Walter Brewing Company

Date: 1896
Description: View down street towards the George Walter Brewing Company. A large group of people are posing on the street with horse-drawn carriages and horse-drawn wag...
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City Leaf Vacuum Cleaner

Date: 10 30 1958
Description: Street gutter full of leaves about to be vacuumed up by three city workers operating a large two wheeled trailer-sized vacuum cleaner with a leaf hose nozz...
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Dollhouse Kitchen

Date: 08 2001
Description: A fully furnished kitchen in a large dollhouse. The kitchen scene includes a doll chef at a stove with pots, pans and utensils; an icebox; a pedestal sink ...
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Wisconsin State Journal Cookbook Recipe Contest

Date: 08 14 1958
Description: Agnes Tomlinson, Middleton, cuts a strawberry pie. She plans to enter the cookbook recipe contest for the Wisconsin State Journal.
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George Wiley as a Chemistry Professor

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Description: Activist and science teacher George Wiley wearing a white lab coat and a bow tie while teaching a chemistry class.
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Louis J. Ropson

Date: 1940
Description: A man is sitting and hunching over the body of a violin. Other violins are hanging up behind him. Caption reads: "Louis J. Ropson, farmer & violin maker of...
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Family Picnic at Shorewood Hills Home

Date: 06 25 1958
Description: Mike frosting a cake in front of sister Ann during a family picnic in the backyard of the Professor Frank J. Remington home.
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Creamery

Date: 02 18 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Creamery, Story, Wis." Two men pose in front of a two-story, clapboard creamery with a lean-to. The building has a cupola and a stair...
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Capture of the Hodag

Date: 08 14 1922
Description: Text on front reads: "Capture of the Hodag, Rhinelander, Wis." A large group of men armed with guns, pitchforks and rakes hold a beast at bay on top of a l...
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Wisconsin Cheese Factory

Date: 1916
Description: Interior view of a cheese factory, with two men posing. Caption on back reads in part: "Cooking the milk in copper-lined vats."

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