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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Woman baking in a large kitchen with lean-to pantry and a wood-burning stove. The sconces or reflectors on the kerosene lamps intensified the light. |
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| Description: | Amos Elliot, pioneer stage coach driver, enjoying a quiet evening at home with his second wife, and her daughter (center), Stella Hart. |
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| Description: | Woman reading "House Beautiful" magazine at Greenwood House. |
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| Description: | Elderly woman using a spinning wheel to make yarn from wool. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | College students at the University of Wisconsin having a fudge-making party around a small gas burner. |
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| Description: | A collection of pioneer household articles arranged in a living room. |
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| Description: | Interior view of Upham residence. There are bookshelves along the back wall. A large, arched doorway leads into another room on the right, with a glass-fro... |
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| Description: | Interior portrait; Bennett family popcorn party. |
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| Description: | Interior portrait of the Bennett family posing around a bowl of popcorn. They are sitting in an alcove with the pocket doors open, and three stringed instr... |
| Date: | 08 12 1958 |
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| Description: | Urbane gentleman shows off his sophisticated high fidelity wall system with reel-to-reel tape deck, reels of tape, and record albums. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Simon Overby at home in their parlor with books, family portraits, and an organ with sheet music. Mr. Overby sits in a chair with a cane and a... |
| Date: | 07 19 1933 |
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| Description: | Dining room decorated in 1840s style in Ralph Warner's "The House Next Door," aka the Lovejoy-Duncan House, 11219 N. Webster Street. The pantry is seen thr... |
| Date: | 06 12 1931 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Tavern Cafe at 212 State Street. Along the left is a striped awing over the counter and soda fountain. |
| 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: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An interior view of a kitchen/dining area/den, from behind the electric range looking into the den. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A mother posing with her seven children in the living room of their home. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A family poses at the dining room table after dinner in Luther Valley. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Dining room at the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys. |
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