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Watering the Laying Hens

Date: 01 13 1956
Description: Edna Kern in the hen house watering the laying hens.
Photograph

Washing Windows

Date: 01 13 1956
Description: Edna Kern washing the windows outside her house. A cat is lying on the lawn in the foreground.
Photograph

Northern Hospital for the Insane Supply Room

Date: 1893
Description: Supply room of the Northern Hospital for the Insane. Canned and bottled goods, kitchenware, clothing, and blankets are on the shelves.
Photograph

Second Herman Amberg Preus Spring Prairie Parsonage

Date: 1869
Description: This is the second Herman Amberg Preus Spring Prairie parsonage. Four men in the foreground pose with rakes and tools. One man sights along a shotgun. Oth...
Photograph

Family in Yard of Farmhouse

Date: 1872
Description: A family is posing in the yard of a farmhouse near the porch. A child is sitting in a baby buggy. Farm buildings, farm implements, wagons and people are in...
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Women and Men around House

Date: 1876
Description: Four women in yard, one holding a doll with a woman sitting on the porch behind frame house. There is a man holding a shovel and two children are standing ...
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Mother and Children Decorating Christmas Bread

Date: 12 05 1956
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, ...
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West Junior High School Girls Making Cookies

Date: 12 16 1952
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...
Photograph

Madison Community Center Craft Class

Date: 01 04 1955
Description: Lydia MacKenzie, Helen Burkhart, the instructor, and Lucille Harks participate in a class on textile handicrafts at the Madison Community Center.
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Cooking Class Preparing a Turkey for Baking

Date: 11 19 1952
Description: Mrs. K. Moldaye mincing an onion for turkey dressing, with another woman looking on, at a Vocational School cooking class.
Postcard

Douglas County Historical Museum

Date: 1940
Description: A spinning wheel, chair, and other kitchen objects in the corner of a room. Caption reads: "Corner of Pioneer Kitchen, Douglas County Historical Museum, Su...
Photograph

Consecration of Bishop Weller as Bishop Coadjutor

Date: 11 08 1900
Description: Consecration of Bishop Weller as Bishop Coadjutor, Diocese of Fund du Lac. Three Bishops seated, l to r: Bishop Nicholson of Milwaukee; Bishop Grafton of F...
Photograph

Goodland Pickling Pears

Date: 1946
Description: Governor Walter Goodland pickling pears.
Photograph

Bessie Hooker Grinding Poppy Seeds

Date: 06 28 1945
Description: With all Hillsboro striving to honor Vice-Admiral March A. Mitscher, who came for a visit with his mother, Bessie Hooker, a maid in the Mr. and Mrs. Lyle H...
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Girl Preparing Hot Lunch

Date: 
Description: A young girl is preparing lunch in a pot on a small stove.
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Farm Hazard: Chopping Wood

Date: 1926
Description: A man demonstrates the farm hazard of chopping wood.
Book or Pamphlet

38 - Preparation of Food for Angora Rabbits

Date: 1943
Description: Vat for preparation of soft food for angora rabbits. Text on page says, "Zubereitung des Weichfutters".
Book or Pamphlet

39 - Man Preparing Animal Food

Date: 1943
Description: Man working with vats for preparation of angora rabbit food.
Book or Pamphlet

40 - Man Preparing Animal Food

Date: 1943
Description: Man working with vats for preparation of angora rabbit food.
Photograph

Carson Gulley Preparing Chickens

Date: 11 25 1942
Description: Navy cooks and bakers assisting a demonstration by Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef.

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