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| Date: | 01 06 1933 |
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| Description: | Fried chicken "basket" lunch (basket was a 2-pound loaf of bread hollowed out and toasted into which the chicken pieces are placed and then delivered) on a... |
| Date: | 07 06 1932 |
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| Description: | Blackhawk Country Club dress up day for women titled "Children's Day." Women are dressed in children's costumes and are eating ice cream cones. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a baby suckling on a bottle. The child is sitting upright dressed in a white gown, with his right hand resting on the chair arm, and his... |
| Date: | 11 22 1947 |
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| Description: | Buffet table for State Hotel Manager's convention, featuring ice carving of the State Capitol building. Taken in the Blue Room at Park Hotel, 22 South Carr... |
| Date: | 06 15 1953 |
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| Description: | Leske's Steak House, 2827 Atwood Avenue. Close-up view of a steak dinner advertised for $2.25. |
| Date: | 12 17 1955 |
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| Description: | A woman and two men at the refreshment table at the Blackhawk Country Club Christmas party. |
| Date: | 10 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Seventy-six-year old Henry L. Krehl, believed to the be city's oldest soda jerk, at the soda fountain of his brother August W. "Doc" Krehl's drug store, 40... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Young boy with a rootbeer float moustache standing in the parking lot of a rootbeer stand. |
| Date: | 05 28 1913 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Two employees of the utility division of the Highway Trailer Company at a company banquet at Harold Halverson's Superclub. Visible in the background of the... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Various condiments sit atop a table near a decorative railing at what appears to be a restaurant. |
| Date: | 05 27 1948 |
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| Description: | Carl Bowden, chef at Maple Bluff Country Club, preparing steaks for a dinner for Big Nine officials. |
| Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of five seated members of the Madison branch of Letter Carriers (#508) being served a pot luck supper in their honor by seven women at the GA... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Fundraising booth of the United Temperance Movement of Wisconsin at the Wisconsin State Fair. At that booth one could purchase soft drinks, milk, and "fir... |
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| Description: | Ice cream being sold outside of a "beer-bar" at a Displaced Persons camp; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivors of the... |
| Date: | 09 16 1935 |
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| Description: | Truck drivers eat at an outdoor lunch counter. Original caption reads: "Elliott Taylor (center) and 2 truck drivers." |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A woman is standing by a cooler with a beer bottle in her hand at Reed's Cafe near a stove and countertop. Original caption states: "McCormick-Deering 6 ca... |
| Date: | 06 26 1950 |
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| Description: | The buffet table at the Governor's residence is set up to welcome a group of nationally-known travel editors to Wisconsin. The buffet table includes an "Am... |
| Date: | 07 08 1952 |
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| Description: | Left to right, Robert Morgensen, Roger Mayer and Bronson La Follette eating hot dogs during the Mendota Yacht Club moonlight regatta and picnic supper on t... |
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