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| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Three girls serving cups of food and bread to children seated at their desks in a Cook County, District 137 classroom. The activity may have been part of t... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Curt Moore selling "one minute" washing machines to a farmer's wife. The washing machines are loaded in the back of an International "Red Baby" truck. The... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Family in yard around table, and a man standing with tool on the right. Behind the group is a Greek Revival house that has a sewing machine on the porch. T... |
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| Description: | Bea and Carson Gulley's Christmas card promoting their catering service. Text on the card reads: "A Blessed Christmas." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A small crowd outside a large tent that adverstises "Reaper Motion Pictures." The tent is likely part of an International Harvester exhibit at a fair or ag... |
| Date: | 10 05 1955 |
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| Description: | Children and adults gathered in front of the gorilla cages at the Washington Park Zoo to celebrate the fifth adoptive birthday party for Samson and Sambo. ... |
| Date: | 02 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Mothers of young children view display of "New Uses of Familiar Things" at the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week. Pictured left to right: Susan Ma... |
| Date: | 07 13 1948 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Governor Rennebohm with nine men looking at a boxcar of the CROP (Christian Rural Overseas Program) train. The nine-carload train contain... |
| Date: | 01 03 1949 |
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| Description: | Austin Thorson, winner of a $100 prize in a Lipton Tea Co. jingle contest, also won $1,200 worth of groceries from the Kroger Co. by writing the address of... |
| Date: | 02 14 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Merle Q. Howard, Milwaukee, president of the women's auxiliary to the State Medical Society of Wisconsin, was the guest of honor at the luncheon meeti... |
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| Description: | Misses Armstrong, Stout, and Norton, and Mister Adams posed on steps before the door of a building hosting a Farmers' Institute Cooking School. |
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| Description: | Strikers from the United Packinghouse Workers union in Topeka taking a coffee break from their picketing. The strikers were employees of the Hill Packing C... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A well-dressed man sits in a chair in a Schwaller Music Store on Pine Street. Various pianos are on display. There are signs for Sohmer Pianos and New Home... |
| Date: | 11 28 1951 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Edmund Hart, Miss Peggy Elvehjem, and Mrs. Harold Kubly serve as chairmen for the University of Wisconsin YWCA Christmas Bazaar to be held in the lobb... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Lunch pails, newspaper-wrapped packages, and hats are stacked on a bench inside Sedan Prairie School. The paper hanging on the wall above the bench reads: ... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | A child is sitting in a shopping cart while her mother is looking over frozen goods at a grocery store. |
| Date: | 03 21 2003 |
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| Description: | Proprietor Joel Bernhard joins the picture. This is the 200th fish fry that the group participated in. Andrea Hanson, second from the left, wrote an articl... |
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| Description: | A young woman and a very tall man stand together in front of the cookhouse wagon. She is holding a bottle of soda and offering him a hotdog; he has his arm... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | An intersection with townhouse on the left and a hotel on the right. There is a group of people on the porch of the townhouse and a horse and carriage park... |
| Date: | 03 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Carson Gulley, senior chef at the University of Wisconsin residence halls, putting on a cooking demonstration at the Loraine Hotel as part of a Norge home ... |
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