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Mother and Children Wrapping Christmas Bread

Date: 12 05 1956
Description: Joan Meyer, 701 Baltzell Street, wrapping loaves of Christmas bread. Watching are children Donnie Meyer, 5, and Mary Jane Meyer, 4.
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Dorothy Flicek

Date: 02 22 1955
Description: Kitchen designer Dorothy Flicek is standing behind a kitchen room divider she designed for her home, located at 3829 Ridgeway Avenue.
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Rinso Laundry Soap Display with Bendix Washer and Dryer

Date: 09 09 1952
Description: A Rinso laundry soap display stands in a grocery store. The sign reads, "Vote for Rinso! Win a Bendix home laundry" and also included in the display are a ...
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Girls Baking Cookies

Date: 12 16 1952
Description: Susie Kamm and Nancy Miles putting cookies into the oven. The girls are members of the 8th grade home economics class at West Junior High School. The class...
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Goodland Pickling Pears

Date: 1946
Description: Governor Walter Goodland pickling pears.
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Joe McCarthy Cooking

Date: 11 1946
Description: Recently-elected Senator Joseph R. McCarthy tasting a favorite recipe for pheasant during vacation.
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Madison Soap Box Derby, Car Construction

Date: 06 18 1947
Description: Ed Gesteland, who is fourteen years old, is shown working on his Soap Box derby racer in the basement of his home at 4221 Wanetah Trail. Behind him, with h...
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Man near Oven at Memorial Union Kitchen

Date: 10 08 1947
Description: Man standing at an oven at the Memorial Union kitchen, University of Wisconsin-Madison. A person can be seen standing on the right with a camera or light.
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Remodeled Kitchen in the Walter Renk Home

Date: 04 12 1949
Description: Remodeled kitchen in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Renk, Route 2, Sun Prairie showing the four rotating corner cupboards next to the refrigerator.
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Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show

Date: 04 07 1949
Description: Mary C. Donahoe inspecting an antique gas range next to new model at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show in the East High School gymnasium.
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National Home Demonstration Week

Date: 04 12 1949
Description: Young homemakers, Caroline Reierson, 615 Dennett Drive, and Arveda Kuhlmey, 713 Dennett Drive, experiment with a new culinary process for cooking meat. The...
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Madison Home Appliance and Radion Show

Date: 04 07 1949
Description: Charles M. Mickelson is loading an automatic washer, with the companion dryer at the left, at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show in the East High Sc...
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Cheese Day Celebration

Date: 10 24 1930
Description: Celebrating the first "Cheese Day" with a parade. A group of spectators gather on the sidewalk near a truck displaying a banner and stove in the back.
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Kitchern Breakfast Nook in A.J. Sweet Residence

Date: 08 30 1949
Description: Kitchen breakfast nook in the residence of Mr. and Mrs. A.J. (Sara) Sweet, 209 North Spooner Street. The drapes and wallpaper feature a fruit design with t...
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Interior of the Mr. & Mrs. Kieth Roberts House

Date: 05 06 1949
Description: Kitchen in the home of Mr. & Mrs. Kieth Roberts, 13 S. Midvale Blvd., one of four homes designed and constructed by Marshall Erdman for war veterans with s...
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Peterson House Kitchen

Date: 09 29 1949
Description: Kitchen in the house of Arthur Peterson at 4175 Cherokee Drive.
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Ruth B. Glassow House Interior

Date: 05 04 1949
Description: Interior view of a room, probably the basement, in the house of Professor Ruth B. Glassow at 1635 Norman Way. The house had been a barn on the estate of Jo...
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New Housing Designs On Shore Acres Road

Date: 03 23 1950
Description: A woman is standing in a modern kitchen while peering into a top-loading dishwasher. The home builders were Ivan Gregory and Jack Klund of Space, Inc. The...
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Charles and Fern Thompson House

Date: 07 03 1951
Description: The kitchen in the new home of Charles and Fern Thompson, 3539 Topping Road, Shorewood Hills.
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Amalgamated Clothing Workers Cooperative Apartments Kitchen

Date: 1930
Description: View of the kitchen at Amalgamated Clothing Workers Cooperative apartments. The narrow room features a checker-tiled floor, a small table and chairs, a flo...

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