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Baking Bread for Communion

Date: 09 25 1963
Description: Elevated view of two women, one pulling loaves of bread from the oven and the other glazing crusts in the church kitchen.
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Mini Bar

Date: 1950
Description: Mini bar with refrigerator and glassware.
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Candy Making

Date: 10 13 1934
Description: John Karch stirring a hot pot of candy syrup on a stove, while trays of finished candy are cooling on the table.
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Egg Cooker Display Window

Date: 03 10 1932
Description: Display window for A & P Special Automatic Egg Cooker (Hankscraft) "available for 98 cents with purchase of 1 dozen Sunnybrook eggs."
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Kitchen Work

Date: 10 07 1931
Description: U.W. co-ed, Maybelle Goodyear of Sauk City, earns money to pay for school by preparing a meal in the kitchen of Dr. and Mrs. C.R. Mooney, at 306 Virginia T...
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Little Oscar and Stove

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Description: Meinhardt Raabe dressed as Little Oscar, standing next to a stove.
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Mother and Children Wrapping Christmas Bread

Date: 12 05 1956
Description: Joan Meyer, 701 Baltzell Street, wrapping loaves of Christmas bread. Watching are children Donnie Meyer, 5, and Mary Jane Meyer, 4.
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Girls Baking Cookies

Date: 12 16 1952
Description: Susie Kamm and Nancy Miles putting cookies into the oven. The girls are members of the 8th grade home economics class at West Junior High School. The class...
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Corporal Duane Haralson and Parents

Date: 02 16 1944
Description: Corporal Duane Haralson with his parents, Rufus and Naomi, in the kitchen of their home at 604 Schiller Court. He was home after two years service in the M...
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Man near Oven at Memorial Union Kitchen

Date: 10 08 1947
Description: Man standing at an oven at the Memorial Union kitchen, University of Wisconsin-Madison. A person can be seen standing on the right with a camera or light.
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Cheese Day Celebration

Date: 10 24 1930
Description: Celebrating the first "Cheese Day" with a parade. A group of spectators gather on the sidewalk near a truck displaying a banner and stove in the back.
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McCormick-Deering Engine

Date: 08 22 1921
Description: McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 h.p. engine powering a Primrose cream separator, a churn, and a washing machine on the farm of A.L. Bishop.
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Bunn the Baker

Date: 1925
Description: Bunn the Baker, in chef's hat and apron and holding a rolling pin, stands beside a wood burning cook stove set up outdoors. A sign above the stove advertis...
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Ellen Proxmire Cooking

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Description: Ellen Proxmire and an unidentified woman shown in a kitchen cooking.
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Drying Rack

Date: 1917
Description: A four-tiered drying rack used to dry fruits and vegetables hangs from the ceiling above a heater in what appears to be a basement or root cellar.
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Electric Cord on Nail

Date: 07 1926
Description: A man wearing a bow tie is toasting a piece of bread on an electric griddle with its cord hanging on a nail on the wall at International Harvester's Hinsda...
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Woman Canning

Date: 1926
Description: A woman wearing an apron is removing a wire rack filled with glass canning jars from a boiler on a Coleman Pressure Range on International Harvester's Hins...
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Chef Carson Gulley

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: Carson Gulley, senior chef at the University of Wisconsin residence halls, putting on a cooking demonstration at the Loraine Hotel as part of a Norge home ...
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Ernie Terhall House

Date: 08 08 1954
Description: Interior view of the kitchen of the Ernie Terhill house in Sun Prairie at 560 Kelly Street. The kitchen contains cabinets, an electric stove, and a work s...
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Woman Steaming Spinach

Date: 07 17 1926
Description: Woman steaming spinach in a hot-water bath on a Coleman Pressure Range at the Harvester Farm. The image is part of a series illustrating canning methods.

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