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Recipes for Working Women
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Emily Chervenik holds a tray of her jam-filled Swedish cakes that she plans to take to the Altrusa Country Fair in Cambridge. She has a collection of treasured and "fool proof" recipes which can be completely prepared the evening before and heated up the day of a party. Her job is coordinator of the University of Wisconsin placement services.
May 11, 1959
Stein, Edwin
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Madison Altrusa Club Annual Country Fair
April 25, 1958
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 Spruce Hill farm near Cambridge. Proceeds are...
Madison Altrusa Club Annual Country Fair
April 25, 1958
Dr. Elizabeth McCoy of the University of Wisconsin bacteriology department examines the root system of French pussywillows she raised to sell at the Madison Altrusa club's annual country fair at th...
Recipe Contest Winner
October 8, 1958
Portrait of Agnes Landwehr who won a recipe contest for her fun buns.
It's Off to School We Go
August 20, 1957
Checking her luggage for her trip next week to Quebec is Catherine du Vair. She will do graduate work at Laval University. She is a 1956 graduate of Marquette University.
Smart Women Drivers
May 24, 1959
Mrs. Jean Wirka is shown telling about her first experience with parallel parking of her car. She said: "I never thought I could parallel park."
Smart Women Drivers
May 24, 1959
Mrs. Jean Wirka is shown gesturing to explain her first experience with parallel parking her car. She said: "And, somehow, I got in the space with no trouble at all."
