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Mohawk Liqueurs Demonstration

Date: 06 02 1953
Description: Group of men and women watching two men demonstrate using Mohawk Liqueurs. The event is sponsored by General Beverage according to the poster behind the de...
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Clark Wilkinson Wedding

Date: 08 04 1953
Description: Clark Wilkinson wedding. The bride and groom are cutting the wedding cake.
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Madison Vocational School Cooking School

Date: 01 25 1954
Description: Instructor E.L. Heiser looking on as students Jean Burik, Bob Knoelke, and Delwin Henriksen are preparing a salad in the cooking school at Madison Vocation...
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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: Cook Hazel Gourlie in the kitchen of the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic.
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Appliance Show in Darlington, WI

Date: 03 06 1954
Description: Youngstown Kitchens appliance show sponsored by the Darlington Furniture Store held in the Darlington High School auditorium. A woman is demonstrating new ...
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Madison Restaurant Association Meeting

Date: 04 28 1954
Description: Chatting after dinner are three family members associated with Tiedeman's drugstore: sitting (left to right) are Margaret Tiedeman and Evelyn Tiedeman; and...
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VA Yule Party

Date: 12 1954
Description: Kitchen help for the holiday party for patients at the Veterans Hospital is provided by Birdie Seligman and Ester Goldstine, members of the Madison Jewish ...
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Family Barbecue

Date: 10 1955
Description: A mother and son look on as the father tends to a thick steak cooking on a portable barbecue. The boy is holding a Dachshund puppy; the mother, three bottl...
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"Rhapsody of Recipes" Cooking School

Date: 05 21 1957
Description: Three attendees in the foreground watch a demonstration on meat cooking at the three-day "Rhapsody of Recipes" Cooking School at the Orpheum Theater. Weari...
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"Rhapsody of Recipes" Cooking School

Date: 05 21 1957
Description: Ruth Hogan, a home economist with the National Livestock and Meat Board prepares a dish during a demonstration at the three-day "Rhapsody of Recipes" Cooki...
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Coloring Easter eggs at their kitchen table are Sherry Svee, age 8, with her mother, Melba Svee, and father Kenneth Svee who is executive director of the M...
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Lunchtime for Two Female Office Workers

Date: 06 04 1957
Description: What do typical Madison female office workers do on their lunch break? Doris Ardelt and Joal Fenn order lunch at a downtown Madison cafeteria.
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City-County Canteen

Date: 08 21 1957
Description: Employees of the new City-County Building enjoying refreshments in the canteen. Marion Burns (left) and Dorothy Gaukel visit at a standup coffee counter be...
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City-County Canteen

Date: 08 21 1957
Description: Employees of the new City-County Building enjoying refreshments in the canteen. Lloyd Harmon (left), operator of the canteen, is serving paper to-go cups t...
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Yule Tea for Homemakers Club Members

Date: 12 06 1957
Description: Mrs. William Reiter (left) and Mrs. Conrad Jaeger (center), both of McFarland, looking at a recipe while Mrs. Carl Edmonds browses through the food items a...
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Food Comes First Week in Wisconsin

Date: 01 24 1957
Description: Governor Vernon Thomson enjoys a lunch at the Park Hotel after signing a proclamation claiming February 23 to March 1 Food Comes First in Wisconsin Week. T...
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Typical Day of a Student Nurse

Date: 01 03 1958
Description: Mary Jo Oxnem, St. Marys Hospital School of Nursing student (left) talking with classmate Sally O'Brien, Antigo, at the hospital cafeteria. This is one of ...
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Easter Baskets for Child Tuberculosis Patients

Date: 04 05 1958
Description: Three members of the Alpha Xi chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority delivered Easter baskets to the young tuberculosis patients at the Morningside sanato...
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Family Picnic at Shorewood Hills Home

Date: 06 25 1958
Description: Baby Frank, the youngest of the Professor Frank J. Remington family, lying on the ground with his bottle during a picnic in their backyard.
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We Saw You . . . at the Junior Fair

Date: 07 17 1958
Description: Mrs. Floyd Duffee, 3436 Blackhawk Drive, a judge at the Dane County Junior Fair, samples pecan jumbles cookies at the fair.

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