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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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Decorating Eagle Heights Apartment

Date: 01 27 1961
Description: One of a series of photographs depicting ways U.W. graduate students have made their small apartments more livable. Shown is Mrs. Robert Walters. She and h...
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Decorating Eagle Heights Apartment

Date: 01 27 1961
Description: One of a series of photographs depicting ways U.W. graduate students have made their small apartments more attractive and livable. Shown is David, left, an...
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Graduate Students Share a House

Date: 01 10 1961
Description: One in a series of photographs of four U.W. physics graduate students who are renting a furnished home at 429 Russell Walk. Having his hair cut by Reinhard...
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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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Carol Baumann (Mrs. Richard J. Baumann)

Date: 09 20 1960
Description: Carol and Dick Baumann do a lot of their household tasks together so that they will have more leisure time to spend with their baby daughter and in sharing...
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New Baby for the Richard Welch Family

Date: 05 05 1959
Description: Richard Welch warms a bottle of milk for his new baby girl Andrea, age six days, at the Welch's home at 4410 Boulder Terrace. The baby's mother is Alice We...
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Scenes from the Life of a Minister's Wife

Date: 03 23 1959
Description: When Joan Carlton of Oakpark, Illinois married Reed Forbush of Appleton, Wisconsin she was skeptical of life as a minister's wife. Now, as a series of phot...
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Scenes from the Life of a Minister's Wife

Date: 03 23 1959
Description: When Joan Carlton of Oakpark, Illinois married Reed Forbush of Appleton, Wisconsin she was skeptical of life as a minister's wife. Now, as a series of phot...
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Scenes from the Life of a Minister's Wife

Date: 03 23 1959
Description: When Joan Carlton of Oakpark, Illinois married Reed Forbush of Appleton, Wisconsin she was skeptical of life as a minister's wife. Now, as a series of phot...
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Mothers With Careers

Date: 02 02 1959
Description: Private duty nurse, Mrs. Clayton R. Felland, sitting at a table at home with her two daughters, Chere and Candy.
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Mothers With Careers

Date: 02 02 1959
Description: Cherokee Junior High seventh grade teacher, Paula Suomi, at home in the kitchen with her three children, Eric, Lois, and Stephen.
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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 12 16 1958
Description: Jean (Bayles) Kirking instructs three of her children, Duane, Ann, and Bruce in the technique of stringing popcorn and cranberries and paper chains to deco...
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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 12 16 1958
Description: Grandma Bayles rolling out Christmas cookies in the farm kitchen with Ann Denise, 3, and baby Gale, 5 months, nearby. One in a series of images depicting C...
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Local Homemakers Making Holiday Preparations

Date: 12 02 1958
Description: Margaret Stephan making a batch of her favorite "Almond Crisps" cookies.
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Granny Cowdin

Date: 11 19 1958
Description: Mary B. Cowdin is standing by a two-burner stove, and pouring hot water into a 'one cup' coffee maker. She resides in her own apartment within her daughter...
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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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University of Wisconsin President's Official Residence

Date: 09 21 1958
Description: University of Wisconsin president Conrad A. Elvehjem's daughter, Peggy, a home economist with General Mills in Minneapolis, standing in the kitchen of Olin...

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