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Italian Woman Preparing Sarsa

Date: 1941
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...
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Woman Pumping Water from Farm Well

Date: 04 1923
Description: A bundled-up woman hand pumps water from a well into a pail. The ground is covered with ice and snow. Two cars and a farmhouse are in the background.
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Burdick & Murray Display Window

Date: 11 20 1933
Description: Thanksgiving dining room display window at Burdick & Murray, 15-19 East Main Street. Featuring a mannequin wearing a dress and an apron, linens, china, cry...
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Loretta Falci Preparing Sarsa

Date: 1941
Description: Loretta Falci (Lorenzina Fiocco Falci), an Italian woman, preparing sarsa, tomato paste, on boards on the porch of her home, 622 Milton Street. Milton Stre...
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William Sachtjen

Date: 1940
Description: Future District Court Judge William Sachtjen, wearing an apron and holding a broom. He is standing behind a 7-Up sign. Sachtjen worked at Droster's Grocery...
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Sewing Exhibit by the Sewing Class of Fennimore High School

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Description: Woman standing at sewing exhibit that includes dresses, children's clothes, aprons, and hats. Mathilda Monteith was the instructor of the sewing class.
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Graumann's Dressmaking Shop

Date: 1898
Description: Miss Graumann, far left, poses with four dressmakers in front of her shop. A sign on the right side of the door states "Dressmaking, Miss Annie Graumann"....
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Eating in a Tent

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Description: Group of men and one boy posed sitting on benches on either side of a long table for a meal in an open-sided tent on the banks of a river. In the backgroun...
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Medicine Wigwam

Date: 1930
Description: A Ho-Chunk woman with two children, a toddler who is standing, and an infant on a cradleboard, beside a long lodge (ciiserec). The lodge is covered with ca...
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First Wounded in Berlin

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Description: The first wounded soldiers in Berlin, at a coffee break outdoors.
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Mosinee Goes Communist for a Day: Rationing

Date: 05 01 1950
Description: Caption on back reads: "All foodstuffs is confiscated by Red authorities and rationed to the citizens. Mrs. Delbert Bauer is shown as she gets her cup of P...
Postcard

Stirring Times

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Stirring Times in White Creek, Wis." A colorized image of a woman wearing a dress with an apron and cap. She is stirring ingredients ...

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