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Kitchen Interior

Date: 1910
Description: Woman baking in a large kitchen with lean-to pantry and a wood-burning stove. The sconces or reflectors on the kerosene lamps intensified the light.
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Cooking Classes at Hillside Home School

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Description: Students in cooking class at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school, operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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International Harvester Refrigerator

Date: 1950
Description: Woman demonstrates the features of a well-stocked International Harvester refrigerator.
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Fudge Party

Date: 1890
Description: College students at the University of Wisconsin having a fudge-making party around a small gas burner.
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Kitchen

Date: 1950
Description: A woman poses her kitchen with all of the modern conveniences.
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Leaths Inc. Window Display

Date: 10 11 1945
Description: Leath's Incorporated, 117 to 119 State Street, display window containing silhouettes of electric household appliances, with a sign that reads: "We'll soon ...
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Zeropoint Water Softener

Date: 07 17 1945
Description: Three men looking at a Zeropoint Water Softener in the basement of the Hotel Loraine, 123 West Washington Avenue. "Twin systems-Zeropoint 'graveless' water...
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Preview Display of Post-War Appliances

Date: 05 23 1945
Description: Window display at Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig, 17 South Pinckney Street, with post-war appliances including products by Vollrath, Filter Queen, West Bend, General...
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Preview Display of Post-War Products

Date: 05 23 1945
Description: Display in left window of future post-war products including appliances manufactured by Toastmaster, All America, General Electric, Proctor, Sunbeam, Steam...
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Co-op Electric Store

Date: 07 02 1943
Description: Interior view of Co-op Electric Store, 155 East Wilson Street, showing small electric household appliances.
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Truck for Speed Queen Appliances

Date: 01 04 1943
Description: Semi-trailer truck with lettering on the side: "Speed Queen Washers Ironers, Barlow & Seelig Mfg. Co., Ripon, Wis." There are storage tanks in the backgrou...
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Health for Victory Stage Set

Date: 09 17 1942
Description: Health for Victory stage, set up with posters, stove and refrigerator for Oscar Mayer at the Eastwood Theater. On the stage is a woman pointing to a poster...
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Woman Demonstrating Pres Kloth

Date: 04 15 1942
Description: Woman holding iron and demonstrating the Pres Kloth (a pressing cloth) in Manchester's Department store, 2-6 East Mifflin Street.
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Oscar Mayer Coolerator Booth

Date: 09 19 1941
Description: Coolerator refrigerator booth at the East Side Business Men's Association Fall Festival. The Oscar Mayer Coolerator Store was located at 401-405 State Stre...
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Maytag Ironer Demonstration

Date: 10 20 1937
Description: Sales woman demonstrating a Maytag Ironer (mangle) to a customer in the Burdick & Murray Department Store, located at 26-30 N. Carroll Street.
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Maytag Washing Machines and Ironers

Date: 10 20 1937
Description: Sales woman demonstrating a Maytag washing machine to a customer. In the foreground are Maytag Ironers (mangles) at Burdick & Murray, 26-30 N. Carroll Stre...
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Home Appliance Department, Burdick and Murray

Date: 09 06 1937
Description: Home appliance department in the Burdick and Murray department store, 26 N. Carroll Street, featuring Royal Rochester and Grunow appliances.
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Every House Appliance Co. Trailer

Date: 08 13 1936
Description: Every-House Appliance Co. trailer with a sign that reads: "Every house needs Westinghouse," 114 E. Main Street.
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Every House Appliance Co. Trailer

Date: 08 13 1936
Description: Every-House Appliance Co. trailer with a sign that reads: "Every house needs Westinghouse," 114 E. Main Street.
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Every House Appliance Co. Car and Trailer

Date: 08 13 1936
Description: Parked automobile with Every-House Appliance Co. trailer-hitched, and advertising that reads: "Every House Needs Westinghouse," in front of the Westinghous...

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