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Date: | 1941 |
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Description: | Loretta Falci (Lorenzina Fiocco Falci), an Italian woman, preparing sarsa, tomato paste on boards on the porch of her home, 622 Milton Street, as she holds... |
Date: | 11 07 1944 |
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Description: | Joyce Elmer is basting a chicken in an iron reflector oven and Gene Lyte is using a butter churn. Both women are University of Wisconsin home economics maj... |
Date: | 11 07 1944 |
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Description: | Isomel Billings is using an old-fashioned broom, Lietzel Pelican and Patricia Cirves are operating a sausage grinder. The women are University of Wisconsin... |
Date: | 11 22 1954 |
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Description: | Kindergarteners at Dudgeon School in Mrs. Virginia Price's class make a pumpkin pie. Ready to add the egg is Nancy Olmstead, manning the beater is Julie Du... |
Date: | 03 05 1947 |
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Description: | Francis Beecher and Dorothy Rawlings indulge in a drink and conversation celebrating the 1st Anniversary of the Community Center's Young Adult Club. |
Date: | 11 13 1956 |
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Description: | Marie Ellis knitting ski sweaters at the East Side Women's Hobby Show. |
Date: | 03 21 1955 |
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Description: | Joan McKerley peeling potatoes in the kitchen of a house she is sharing with three other young women at 2253 Rugby Row. |
Date: | 09 17 1952 |
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Description: | Pauline Rehder working in the Heart Kitchen at Madison Vocational and Adult School. The Heart Kitchen, for women with heart disease, allows the cook to wo... |
Date: | 10 01 1952 |
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Description: | Margaret E. Garnett (Mrs. A.C.), of Madison, program chair of the convention, and Mrs. Linus Boehm of West Salem, president of the state federation, cuttin... |
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 05 1956 |
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Description: | Anne De Witt, 5502 Tolman Terrace, is being helped by her daughter Maureen De Witt, 4, to decorate Christmas bread while her other daughter, Beth De Witt, ... |
Date: | 12 22 1956 |
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Description: | Ruth Bass, 4216 Mandrake Road, receiving a clock radio as a prize in the Christmas outdoor home lighting contest from Lucien G. Schlimgen, Jr., president o... |
Date: | 12 16 1952 |
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Description: | Mrs. Marie Shrout, 1102 Grant Street, preparing Christmas tree decorations with her children, Jim, 13, Patrick, 3, Douglas, 4, Susan, 9, Michael, 7, and St... |
Date: | 08 1955 |
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Description: | Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John Wise), Wisconsin's first woman Secretary of State, posing in the kitchen cooking. |
Date: | 04 19 1955 |
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Description: | Attic Angels Association "sewing bee," where members make aprons, curtains, and other articles for the Visiting Nurse Service. Left to right: Daisy Breyer,... |
Date: | 06 08 1955 |
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Description: | Mrs. Friede (?) sits in a chair while crocheting a doily. |
Date: | 09 13 1955 |
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Description: | Three board members of the Who's New Club lunching at Blackhawk Country Club, Shorewood Hills. Left to right: Virginia Mansfield, Lois Cardinal, and Shirle... |
Date: | 12 16 1952 |
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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... |
Date: | 12 16 1952 |
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Description: | Nancy Rieter and Dianne Blanchard, students in the 8th grade home economics class at West Junior High School, mixing cookie batter. The class baked several... |
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