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Cooking Classes at Hillside Home School

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Description: Students in cooking class at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school, operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Fudge Party

Date: 1890
Description: College students at the University of Wisconsin having a fudge-making party around a small gas burner.
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Home Economics Class in a Social Moment

Date: 1929
Description: University of Wisconsin home economics students have a tea party.
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Picnic Point Work Day Lunch Break

Date: 04 27 1945
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison annual student work day at Picnic Point. Shown are four students at lunch break. Left to right: Dominic Cefalu, John E. Had...
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University of Wisconsin Women's Association

Date: 03 26 1947
Description: University of Wisconsin Women's Self Government style show committee members Dorothy Proudfoot, Wilmette, Illinois, chairman of decorations, Margaret Pesut...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Home Economics

Date: 12 09 1947
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison students at a weiner roast in the recreation room of the University of Wisconsin Home Management house at 1430 Linden Drive...
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University of Wisconsin Home Economics

Date: 12 09 1947
Description: Annette Wellers, Whitewater, hurrying off to class while Mildred Benson, Stoughton, arrives with groceries at the front door of the University of Wisconsin...
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Young Citizenship Group Sewing

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Description: Johns Island students discuss sewing and the first young citizenship group at Highlander Folk School.
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University of Wisconsin Students Prepare for Winter Carnival

Date: 02 02 1949
Description: University of Wisconsin students Bob Steinhagen, Milwaukee, Connie Prentice, West Bend, and John Williams, La Crosse, making some of the elaborate decorati...
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Randall Elementary School Kindergarteners Making Applesauce

Date: 10 12 1949
Description: Randall Elementary School kindergartners are shown making applesauce under the supervision of their teacher Marguerite Drew. Stirring the pot is Patty Hurl...
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Boys Learning to Sew

Date: 1913
Description: Boys learning to sew. Original caption reads: "Sewing Lesson for Boys of the 7th and 8th grades. These boys are learning how to sew on buttons."
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Girls in Sewing Class

Date: 1914
Description: Female students working in a sewing class taught by Miss Catherine Mulvey. Original caption reads, "Miss Mulvey teaches the primary grades, but on Friday a...
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New Teachers

Date: 09 22 1953
Description: New home economics teachers at West High School Jeane Schwartz and Patricia Weege (center) are shown with pupils Pamla Wobig (left) and Carla Tande; they a...
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Thanksgiving Feast

Date: 11 26 1930
Description: Students and teacher seated at a long table loaded with food and drinks for a Thanksgiving meal. There are music and English lessons behind them on the cha...
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Home Economics Day

Date: 03 20 1957
Description: Mary Crain (right), home economist, teacher, dietician, and manager of the West High School cafeteria, supervises two of her students, Linda Gaarder and Al...
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University of Wisconsin Summer Session Pre-Prom Dinner

Date: 08 1958
Description: Two of the queen candidates are shown with their escorts. They are Marlys Hitzke (left) and Lenore Zamis (right). Their escorts are Bruce Creger and Harry ...
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Beta Sigma Phi Convention

Date: 06 10 1960
Description: Two sorority members from Minneapolis, Diane Braasch and Shelby Thundstrom, admire the elaborately set table for the Beta Sigma Phi convention reception.
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"Tasting Tea" at Ann Emery Hall

Date: 12 05 1961
Description: Katie Knode, Fredonia, New York, with a frosted Cherry Angel Food Cake. The co-eds pictured in this series are all freshmen or sophomores at Ann Emery Hall...

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