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| Date: | 10 31 2003 |
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| Description: | "Keeping our Friday fish fry tradition alive, Heather delivers a Friday meal featuring fish at Mercy Medical Center." |
| Date: | 02 25 2005 |
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| Description: | "Connie waited on us at Lucky's in Fond du Lac." From left to right; Ralph "Buddy" Ruecker, John Bodden, Shirley Widmer, and Connie. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A family with three children sitting around a dining table while eating a meal. The walls of the dining room are covered with wallpaper and decorated with ... |
| Date: | 06 20 2008 |
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| Description: | "Brittany was the cook and waitress at Rusty's Pub-N-Grub." From left to right: Ralph "Buddy" Ruecker, Carl Bernhard, Shirley Widmer, and Brittany. Jim Wid... |
| Date: | 04 30 2010 |
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| Description: | "At The Marsh Inn, we had as our guests, Andy Kraushaar, Visual Materials Curator at the Wisconsin Historical Society, and his wife [Deena Brazy]. Our wait... |
| Date: | 01 16 1967 |
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| Description: | Instructor Ida Mussa (left) assists student Victoria Vega in a power sewing class at Milwaukee Vocational School. Vega is sewing an apron on a Singer sewin... |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Betz ironing a skirt on a wall-mounted foldout ironing board. A radiator is along the wall near a sink, and a wooden chair is on the right. |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Pages from a newspaper are scattered on a rug at the base of a rocking chair in a farmhouse living room. A radiator and bookcase are behind the chair. |
| Date: | 10 1927 |
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| Description: | Freshly pressed clothing hanging on a metal bar off an Apex electric ironing machine. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman using a foot-pedal sewing machine while working with a piece of fraying fabric. |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman using an electric sewing machine while sitting at a table with latticed sides. |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Waggoner using a Coffield electric washing machine and wringer to launder clothing on International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm (Harvester ... |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Granere starting a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine in order to power a Maytag washer. |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a checkered dress is turning the faucet on a bathtub at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm (Harvester Farm). |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Granere using a washing machine powered by a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm (Harveste... |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman using a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine to pump water into a metal bucket outside a building at International Harvester's Hinsdale experime... |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | A man wearing overalls and a cap is using a saw powered by a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine to cut wood on International Harvester's Hinsdale expe... |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. J.E. Waggoner passing plaid fabric through a wringer after using an electric washing machine. A washboard is hanging on the wall in the background, an... |
| Date: | 10 1969 |
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| Description: | Cover design on the magazine "Wisconsin Engineer". The image illustrates the story "The Population Explosion" by depicting a mass of starving people trying... |
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| Description: | Mrs. Harvey Blue pouring maple sugar candies. Mrs. Blue, in a flowered apron, is holding a white enameled pot in one hand, and a ladle of maple sugar confe... |
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