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| Date: | 09 13 1949 |
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| Description: | Elderly woman making pancakes on griddle at wood burning stove. |
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| Description: | Elderly woman using a spinning wheel to make yarn from wool. |
| Date: | 04 17 1957 |
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| Description: | A Girl Scout crocheting doilies at a senior citizens' care center with her "adoptive grandmother." |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Simon Overby at home in their parlor with books, family portraits, and an organ with sheet music. Mr. Overby sits in a chair with a cane and a... |
| Date: | 11 26 1952 |
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| Description: | William Thorp and Hattie Reed bow their heads in prayer before Thanksgiving dinner is served by the Volunteers of America to 56 members of its Sunset Club. |
| Date: | 11 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Members of the Volunteers of America Sunset Club eating a Thanksgiving dinner. |
| Date: | 12 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Jack Westra is serving punch at a Christmas party to three residents of the Dane County Home. The party was sponsored by the Madison Association of Un... |
| Date: | 10 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Two women at a meeting of the Madison Home Economics Club with the theme "Good Nutrition, A Wartime Challenge." Nellie Kedzie Jones, guest of honor and pas... |
| Date: | 04 24 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Ella M. Pickford (Mrs. Henry W. Pickford), 201 South Mills Street. Mrs. Pickford, who is 88 years old, does her own housework and despite poor ... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Goodland and his wife Madge in their kitchen pickling pears. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elderly woman sitting in a rocking chair knitting in front of a window. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | 100-year-old woman, a resident of Muscoda, Wis., sitting at a table, stirring a cup of coffee (?). Newsphoto for the Wisconsin State Journal. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | E.W. and Mary Brandel relax together in their home in front of a brick fireplace. They are both wearing eyeglasses; he is reading a newspaper and she is kn... |
| Date: | 12 |
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| Description: | Several women are served lutefisk at a lutefisk supper at the Dane County Home. There are plates of lefse and dinner rolls on the table. |
| Date: | 08 15 1997 |
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| Description: | "We dine at the Buckhorn Restaurant. A half order of Lake Perch is only $5.00." From left to right; Ralph Widmer, Ralph "Buddy" Ruecker, Rudy Heinecke, Joh... |
| Date: | 11 21 1997 |
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| Description: | "Ruth Emery waits on us at the Marshland Cafe. Perch dinners for senior citizens are $7.15." From left to right; Shirley Widmer, Rudy Heinecke, Ralph Widme... |
| Date: | 12 12 1997 |
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| Description: | "Matt Straveler is our waiter at Cunningham's Feed Mill. They only serve Cod which is $5.50 per plate." |
| Date: | 12 19 1997 |
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| Description: | "Dawn Stott is our waitress at Walden Supper Club, Perch are $8.95." From left to right; Shirley Widmer, Ralph Widmer, Dawn Stott, Ralph "Buddy" Ruecker, a... |
| Date: | 01 02 1998 |
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| Description: | "Vicki, waits on our group at the Little Red Inn in St. Lawrence." Pictured (Clockwise around the table); Ralph Widmer, Shirley Widmer, Parker Hren, John B... |
| Date: | 01 30 1998 |
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| Description: | "Stacey is our waitress at Andersons on Friess Lake, (near Holy Hill). Perch are $9.95." From left to right; Stacey, Ralph Widmer, and Shirley Widmer. |
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