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Tea Room / Restaurant (?)

Date: 1920
Description: Woman and child standing in a room with three tables covered in tablecloths. Caption reads: "Dodgeville, Wis."
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Domestic Science Dining Room, Indian Training School

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Description: Several women in dresses are seated at a table in a formally decorated room. A woman stands holding a tray at the end of the table. The image appears in a ...
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Interior of Straubel House; Parlor and Dining Room

Date: 1895
Description: Interior view of the parlor and dining room of the Straubel home. A piano is in the parlor in the foreground, and a woman is standing next to the dining ro...
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Group Posed Around Table

Date: 08 04 1945
Description: Eight couples and one woman with a corsage gathered around a dining table in the McNeel home. Eight women are wearing matching white capes and head scarves...
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Butternut House; Dining Room

Date: 1956
Description: Three women in period clothes are having tea in the dining room. Text on reverse reads: "Dining Room, Butternut House, Old Wade House State Park, Greenb...
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League of Women Voters Coffee

Date: 10 06 1949
Description: Four ladies attending a League of Women Voters coffee at the home of Mrs. A.T. (Daisy) Breyer, 2730 Lakeland Avenue. From left are :Mrs. Leon (Dorothy) Kel...
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Family in Dining Room

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Description: A family is posed in a dining room with a woman seated and holding a small child. A man is seated at a desk in the corner, with a young girl standing nearb...
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Miners at Diner

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Description: Zinc miners at tables in the dining hall near.
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Lucius Fairchild with Dinner Guests

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Description: Lucius Fairchild in his dining room with guests, one of which is GAR Commander-in-chief, General Bryant. Fairchild, a Republican, was the 10th governor of...
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University of Wisconsin Football Pregame Party

Date: 10 26 1954
Description: Audrey Walsh arranges an heirloom crystal candelabra in preparation for a University of Wisconsin football pregame party. She plans to serve Swedish meatba...
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University of Wisconsin Football Pregame Party

Date: 10 26 1954
Description: Marilyn Sachtjen standing in her dining room while preparing the serving table for a University of Wisconsin football pregame party. She will be serving st...
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Kilkare Lodge Dining Room

Date: 1948
Description: The dining room in Kilkare Lodge on Birch Island Lake. Windows line both sides of the room. Two women are sitting at tables at the far end of the room near...
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Brides at Home

Date: 06 25 1957
Description: Mary Weston Frautschi preparing her dining room table for a dinner party. The photograph is one of a series showing how newlywed women have made their new ...
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University of Wisconsin Football Pregame Party

Date: 10 26 1954
Description: Lucia Leach in her home prior to a University of Wisconsin pregame party. She will be serving baked ham, scalloped potatoes, a green salad, rye bread, and ...
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State Building & Grounds Retirees Dinner

Date: 01 25 1944
Description: Group portrait of those in attendence at a dinner to honor 14 retiring employees of the Division of Buildings and Grounds of the Wisconsin Bureau of Engine...
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Flora van Brink Hony Bader (nee Melkman) and Family Members

Date: 1968
Description: From left: Flora van Brink Hony Bader (nee Melkman), son-in-law Fred, daughter Anneke, and husband Aron Bader in a dining room.
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Donald and Mary Reppen Residence

Date: 06 14 1951
Description: Mary Reppen standing in the kitchen of her and her husband Donald's new residence at 2901 Sylvan Avenue.
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Local Homemakers Making Holiday Preparations

Date: 12 02 1958
Description: Karen Nielsen, a native from Denmark, lights candles in a Christmas decoration she made for her dinner table.
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Bridge Tea at Glenn Frank House

Date: 11 16 1932
Description: University League benefit bridge tea hostesses around the tea table in the dining room at the University of Wisconsin Pres. Glenn Frank's home, 130 N. Pros...
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Female Kitchen Staff at Luther College

Date: 1876
Description: Women kitchen staff posed by tables set for a meal at Luther College. "View of the Dining Hall" as identified in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Vie...

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