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Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Harriet Douglas Whetten (b.1822). Whetten was a volunteer nurse during the Civil War. She served on hospital ships out of New York and Philadelphia from 18... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Group of men posing in the dining room at August Mason's lumber camp. Three men are playing stringed instruments. Posters are displayed on the wall behind ... |
Date: | 1955 |
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Description: | Family in their living room. The mother watches television, the father reads a newspaper, the daughter reads a book, and two sons play with a train set. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | An apron-clad woman broiling hamburgers in the kitchen. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Woman baking in a large kitchen with lean-to pantry and a wood-burning stove. The sconces or reflectors on the kerosene lamps intensified the light. |
Date: | 05 1960 |
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Description: | Two women serving coffee to customers at a coffee shop. Richland Center, Wisconsin. |
Date: | 1939 |
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Description: | Woman worker wearing a butcher's apron, poses holding a ham, in a meat market with Easter ham display. |
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Description: | Students in cooking class at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school, operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright. |
Date: | 10 17 1939 |
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Description: | Women working in casing department at the Oscar Mayer & Company meat packing plant, 910 Mayer Avenue. |
Date: | 1959 |
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Description: | Women preparing food for an annual Norwegian church supper at the Trinity Lutheran Church. |
Date: | 1928 |
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Description: | Dairyman conducting Methylene blue test on a can of milk. Notice in background reads: "For all milk which passes the quality requirements of this factory, ... |
Date: | 1952 |
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Description: | Factory workers on the assembly line at International Harvester's Farmall Works. The men are working on Farmall tractors. |
Date: | 03 22 1948 |
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Description: | Strike kitchen of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers of America (Plankinton Packing Company). Left to right: Al Herold (chef), Ernie Bernie, Jimmy Glov... |
Date: | 1897 |
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Description: | Interior of the kitchen at 12 North Broom Street, the residence of James and Mary Ellen Nevin, showing Mrs. Nevin and her sister cooking. James Nevin was ... |
Date: | 1960 |
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Description: | A father standing over a pan wearing an apron. He is cooking and smoking a cigar. |
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Description: | Men and women packing poultry at the Home Packing Company. |
Date: | 05 12 1933 |
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Description: | Mrs. Wilson Mutchler of Stoners' Prairie farm at 2533 Mutchler Road, south of Madison, cooking soup on a woodstove. |
Date: | 1956 |
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Description: | Waiter making a malt in the Zesto Malt Shop at 658 State Street. |
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Description: | A woman is being waited on by a man standing behind the counter of a grocery store. Canned goods are stacked on shelves along the wall behind the counter. |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Interior of the Fred Schenk grocery store on the corner of Atwood Avenue and Winnebago Street. Included in the photograph are Art Ramsey, Matilda Schenk, a... |
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