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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A young child examines a children's book with her grandmother. |
| Date: | 12 20 1930 |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of Jerome C. and May Holt sitting in rockers in their living room at 1922 Madison Street. |
| Date: | 09 30 1930 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. at the La Follette Farm in Maple Bluff. There is a spinning wheel beside him on the right near a bookcase. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | F.A. Schmidt, professor of theology at the Norwegian Lutheran Seminary, with his family on the grounds of the seminary, formerly the Soldiers' and Orphans'... |
| Date: | 07 27 1949 |
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| Description: | The living room of the Winfield Martin house, 2906 Lakeland Avenue (earlier address, 611 Elmside Boulevard), with built-in bookcases, cupboards ande a free... |
| Date: | 07 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Ginny Hall, a West High School senior, has a summer job caring for Sharon and Sandra Sinn, the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Sinn, 3405 Blackhawk Dr... |
| Date: | 08 18 1949 |
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| Description: | Alice Vinje posing with her collection of cookbooks at her 2800 Mason Street home. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | An interior view of the Wisconsin State Treasurer, Sewell A. Peterson, home on South Fairchild Street. The photograph is taken looking through the parlor a... |
| Date: | 10 08 1950 |
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| Description: | Sydney S. Miller, manager of the Madison Social Security Office, shares a 1950 government-issued booklet explaining a program to employers of household wor... |
| Date: | 12 15 1951 |
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| Description: | Four members of the Friendship Club stand around a table while assembling a cookbook. Left to right, Mrs. Malcom Gordon, Gertrude Taliaferro, Mrs. William ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Forest Middleton, wearing eyeglasses, holds Leonore Judkins Middleton on his lap. She is crocheting as he rests his head on her bosom. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Forest Middleton, second from right, and four other boys, enjoy apples and popcorn in the Middleton family kitchen. One boy is peeling an apple as another ... |
| Date: | 03 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Frank J. Vaughn reads to 6-year-old Kenneth Lemmer, Jr. and 5-year-old Ann Lemmer while the children's grandmother, Kath B. Morrissey, works on an afg... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a woman standing over a table, pinning a sewing pattern piece to cloth. An ironing board and bookca... |
| Date: | 02 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Front cover, frontispiece photograph, and page from a publication of the State Board of Health, with half silhouette views of three seated children with mi... |
| Date: | 07 27 1959 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Margaret Nelson, teacher-coordinator at the Madison Vocational and Adult School, looks over entries in the Wisconsin State Journal's annual cook book ... |
| Date: | 07 27 1959 |
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| Description: | Miss Loreen Jacobson, home economics director of the Wisconsin Power and Light Company, performs a test of a casserole entered in the annual Wisconsin S... |
| Date: | 07 27 1959 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Alice Ferguson (left), home service director of Madison Gas and Electric Company, and Loreen Jacobson, home economics director of Wisconsin Power and ... |
| Date: | 07 27 1959 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Alice Ferguson, home service director of Madison Gas and Electric Company, tests a pie entered in the Wisconsin State Journal's annual Cook Book Recip... |
| Date: | 07 27 1959 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of three judges for the Wisconsin State Journal's annual Cook Book Recipe Contest. Left to right are Mrs. Alice Ferguson, home servic... |
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