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Home Economics

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Description: Slightly elevated view of six young women posed in a kitchen. Two women on the left stand at a sink washing dishes, two women stand at a table behind them,...
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Northern Wisconsin Center Home Economics Class

Date: 1930
Description: Slightly elevated view of six women wearing aprons learning domestic skills in a kitchen classroom. Two women on the left stand at a sink washing dishes, t...
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University of Wisconsin Home Economics Department

Date: 03 25 1961
Description: One of twenty four images of women visiting the University of Wisconsin Home Economics Department.
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Class in Accounting Principles

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Description: A University Extension Accounting class posing in the classroom, with men standing and women seated. Included are Berhart, Jackson, Ollinger, Stewart, Keit...
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Typing Class

Date: 1939
Description: Interior view of a classroom with young men and women learning about, and working on, typewriters.
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Madison Vocational And Adult Education School

Date: 01 22 1957
Description: Mrs. Robert J. (Gladys) Murphy of 405 Eugenia Avenue is one of many women enrolled in the tailoring class of Mrs. Helen John, at the Madison Vocational and...
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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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Millinery Class at Madison Vocational School

Date: 11 08 1946
Description: Three women wearing hats they made in a millinery class at the Madison Vocational School. Seated is Mrs. David (Hilda) Gay, and standing behind her are Mrs...
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Millinery Class at Madison Vocational School

Date: 12 08 1946
Description: Three women in the millinery class at the Madison Vocational School looking at fabrics. Left to right: Mrs. Martelle Swanson, class instructor, and student...
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"Heart Kitchen" for the Cardiac Patient

Date: 09 17 1952
Description: The "heart kitchen," a new kitchen designed to show women with heart trouble how to cut their work in half, recently constructed in the Madison Vocational ...
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Constructive Workshops for Older Adults

Date: 11 27 1951
Description: Constructive Workshops for Older Adults, created by the Vocational School, offers many leisure time activities for newly retired men and women. Margaret La...
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Madison Vocational and Adult Education School

Date: 01 22 1957
Description: Men and women are learning how to fill the long hours of ever-mounting leisure time in modern living at the Madison Vocational and Adult Education School. ...
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Constructive Workshops for Older Adults

Date: 11 27 1951
Description: Constructive Workshops for Older Adults, created by the Vocational School, offers many leisure time activities for newly retired men and women. Clara Gull ...
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Constructive Workshops for Older Adults

Date: 11 27 1951
Description: Constructive Workshops for Older Adults, created by the Vocational School, offers many leisure time activities for newly retired men and women. Arlene Find...
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Cooking Class Preparing a Turkey for Baking

Date: 11 19 1952
Description: Mrs. K. Moldaye mincing an onion for turkey dressing, with another woman looking on, at a Vocational School cooking class.
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Violette Wartzok

Date: 02 11 1954
Description: Violette Wartzok demonstrates a procedure in the drapery-making class at the Madison Vocational and Adult School.
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Constructive Workshops For Older Adults

Date: 11 27 1951
Description: Constructive Workshops for Older Adults, created by the Vocational School, offers many leisure time activities for newly-retired men and women. Pictured le...
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Constructive Workshops for Older Adults

Date: 11 27 1951
Description: Constructive Workshops for Older Adults, created by the Vocational School, offers many leisure time activities for newly retired men and women. Alice Holme...
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Millinery Class at Madison Vocational School

Date: 12 08 1946
Description: Five women members of the millinery class at Madison Vocational School admiring their finished hats. Left to right: Mrs. A.J. (Cora) Niebauer, Mrs. W. H.(G...
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Wisconsin Spring Market Hog Show

Date: 02 24 1961
Description: More than 150 Madison area young people in vocational-agricultural classes and 4-H clubs took part in the activity of judging 20 pork cuts and placing 10 l...

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