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Madison Women Host Television Shows

Date: 05 15 1958
Description: Madison television programs are hosted by Madison women and cover topics like cooking, arts, fashion and crafts. Luella Mortenson, women's director for bot...
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Madison Women Host Television Shows

Date: 05 15 1958
Description: Madison television programs are hosted by Madison women and cover topics like cooking, arts, fashion and crafts. A husband and wife team, Bea and Carson Gu...
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Teenagers Picnic

Date: 05 04 1959
Description: Julie Snyder roasts a hot dog at a Madison park shelter fireplace during a picnic for teenagers.
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Restaurant Institute at Madison Vocational School

Date: 01 17 1951
Description: William Hovens of Trevor, Wisconsin, a student at the newly-opened Restaurant Institute at Madison Vocational School and a restaurent owner, mixing up a ba...
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Madison Altrusa Club Annual Country Fair

Date: 04 25 1958
Description: Constance Elvehjem will sell some of her famous baked beans made from her grandmother's recipe at the Madison Altrusa club's annual country fair at the Spr...
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Norwegian Church Supper

Date: 1959
Description: Women preparing food for an annual Norwegian church supper at the Trinity Lutheran Church.
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Brand New Oven

Date: 1950
Description: Woman displays a brand new oven/stove.
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Heart Kitchen

Date: 09 17 1952
Description: Pauline Rehder working in the Heart Kitchen at Madison Vocational and Adult School. The Heart Kitchen, for women with heart disease, allows the cook to wo...
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Wisconsin State Journal Cook Book Recipe Contest

Date: 07 27 1959
Description: Mrs. Margaret Nelson, teacher-coordinator at the Madison Vocational and Adult School, looks over entries in the Wisconsin State Journal's annual cook book ...
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Wisconsin State Journal Cook Book Recipe Contest

Date: 07 27 1959
Description: Mrs. Alice Ferguson, home service director of Madison Gas and Electric Company, tests a pie entered in the Wisconsin State Journal's annual Cook Book Recip...
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Wisconsin State Journal Cook Book Recipe Contest

Date: 07 27 1959
Description: Mrs. Alice Ferguson (left), home service director of Madison Gas and Electric Company, and Loreen Jacobson, home economics director of Wisconsin Power and ...
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Wisconsin State Journal Cook Book Recipe Contest

Date: 08 15 1959
Description: Mrs. Mary Pratt of Madison was the second grand prize winner in the Wisconsin State Journal's annual Cook Book Recipe Contest. Her recipe is for Fes...
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"Rhapsody of Recipes" Cooking School

Date: 05 21 1957
Description: Robert Rohr of Madison Newspapers collects limerick lines for winning prizes from Elaine Mohr and Mrs. Lee Wesner at the three-day "Rhapsody of Recipes" Co...
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Wisconsin State Journal Cook Book Recipe Contest

Date: 07 27 1959
Description: Group portrait of three judges for the Wisconsin State Journal's annual Cook Book Recipe Contest. Left to right are Mrs. Alice Ferguson, home servic...
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Research Products Filter Fry

Date: 10 08 1953
Description: Display of Research Products Corporation Filter Fry frying pan covers in a grocery cart.
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Table Settings

Date: 08 1954
Description: Table decorations created by Matha Hart in a formal summer style.
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Men Who Cook

Date: 05 22 1956
Description: T.L. Graham is shown preparing strawberries for a dessert served with sour cream and a topping of brown sugar.
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Recipe Contest Winner

Date: 10 08 1958
Description: Portrait of Agnes Landwehr who won a recipe contest for her fun buns.
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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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North Central Airline Stewardesses

Date: 11 10 1954
Description: Stewardess Coleen Ogle cooking in the apartment she shares with three other stewardesses. Art Kemp, first officer and co-pilot, is looking on. The photogra...

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