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| Date: | 11 15 1926 |
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| Description: | Window display of the Schmidt Hardware Company showing Mirro Aluminum toy sets: dishes and silverware. |
| Date: | 11 15 1926 |
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| Description: | Window display of Schmidt Hardware Comany showing Mirro Aluminum toy sets: dishes, silverware. |
| Date: | 07 29 1949 |
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| Description: | Struck and Irwin Fuel Company booth, at East Side Business Men's Association Fall Festival, in a tent at Olbrich Park, includes charcoal and outdoor charco... |
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| Description: | Cooking demonstration in the Women's Building at the Wisconsin State Fair, featuring a cheese appetizer. |
| 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: | 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: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Fundraising booth of the United Temperance Movement of Wisconsin at the Wisconsin State Fair. At that booth one could purchase soft drinks, milk, and "fir... |
| 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: | 1939 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin freshman boxing team dressed in boxing uniforms and gloves standing behind stacked cans of sauerkraut with a sign that reads "Pep U... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior view, with desks in the foreground, of an elementary classroom decorated with a Christmas tree near the blackboard, and other holiday decorations,... |
| Date: | 05 13 1939 |
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| Description: | A hobby show with quilts hanging from the wall. Rugs are draped over radiators. There are also bedside tables, lamps, a bookshelf, and a rocking chair. A s... |
| Date: | 08 30 1963 |
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| Description: | Closely timed cooking and quick serving are the secret of a successful fish boil. A heavy iron bar is inserted in the basket of potatoes and onions to remo... |
| Date: | 10 27 1917 |
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| Description: | View of an agricultural display at the Walkenhorst School Fair, consisting of vegetables, fruits, and canned goods lined up on a table. Various graphs, il... |
| Date: | 08 08 1984 |
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| Description: | The winner of the sauerkraut eating contest, Don Bauer, standing triumphantly before his clean plate. A U.S. flag and a sign for the 34th Kraut Festival ad... |
| Date: | 11 02 2001 |
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| Description: | "Our waitresses at The Hillcrest Inn, are Faye (seated) and Beth (standing). |
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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: | 06 1990 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey from Wausau and State Senator David Helbach from Stevens Point serving scrambled eggs at Marshfield Dairy Days. |
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| Description: | Four men and seven women are posing sitting and standing around a picnic on the edge of a river, with a man standing on a bridge in the background. The fir... |
| Date: | 1996 |
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| Description: | "Evangeline Koll and Arlene Beck ride the float in the Allenton Firemen's Picnic Parade." |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Demonstration booth in the Women's Building at the Wisconsin State Fair, showing electrical kitchen equipment. |
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