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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: Mrs. Julian Clark and her son, Andrew, of Waunakee taking in a demonstration at the "Rhapsody of Recipes" Cooking School at the Orpheum Theater.
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First Year of School for a Cambridge Farm Girl

Date: 08 16 1957
Description: Orlow R. Notstad reads to his four children in their farm home near Cambridge. His two oldest, Jimmy and Barbara, will be elementary students at the Rockda...
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Serving Tea, a Gracious Custom

Date: 02 18 1958
Description: Sitting in front of the fireplace in the family home at 535 Wisconsin Avenue are Mrs. Lucien (Mary) Hanks, her daughter and two friends. They are (left to ...
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Family Picnic at Shorewood Hills Home

Date: 06 25 1958
Description: Mike frosting a cake in front of sister Ann during a family picnic in the backyard of the Professor Frank J. Remington home.
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Family Picnic at Shorewood Hills Home

Date: 06 25 1958
Description: Brothers Jim and Tom cooking hot dogs during a picnic of the Professor Frank J. Remington family in their backyard.
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Family Picnic at Shorewood Hills Home

Date: 06 25 1958
Description: Daughter Ann helping her mother setting the table for a family picnic in the backyard of the Professor Frank J. Remington home.
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Family Picnic at Shorewood Hills Home

Date: 06 25 1958
Description: Brothers Jim and Pat enjoying hot dogs during a family picnic in the backyard of the Professor Frank J. Remington home.
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Family Picnic at Shorewood Hills Home

Date: 06 25 1958
Description: Daughter Ann enjoying the food during the Professor Frank J. Remington family picnic in their backyard.
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Family Picnic at Shorewood Hills Home

Date: 06 25 1958
Description: The Frank J. Remington family enjoying a picnic in their backyard.
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Granny Cowdin

Date: 11 19 1958
Description: Mary B. Cowdin (Granny), Mary C. Metz and Ralph W. Metz financed and built a house at 4725 Lafayette Drive with a full apartment for Granny and the rest of...
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Local Homemakers Making Holiday Preparations

Date: 12 02 1958
Description: Group of grandmothers from a clothing class at Madison Vocational and Adult School that make clothing for their grandchildren. Genevieve Sorenson (left) ad...
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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 12 16 1958
Description: Grandma Bayles rolling out Christmas cookies in the farm kitchen with Ann Denise, 3, and baby Gale, 5 months, nearby. One in a series of images depicting C...
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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 12 16 1958
Description: Jean (Bayles) Kirking instructs three of her children, Duane, Ann, and Bruce in the technique of stringing popcorn and cranberries and paper chains to deco...

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