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Photograph

Italian Woman Preparing Sarsa

Date: 1941
Description: Loretta Falci (Lorenzina Fiocco Falci), an Italian woman, preparing sarsa, tomato paste on boards on the porch of her home, 622 Milton Street, as she holds...
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Pickled Peppers

Date: 11 21 1963
Description: A variety of canned and fresh peppers is artfully displayed by the woman who serves them to her family and gives them as gifts.
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Squash Harvest

Date: 1920
Description: A woman stands amid a patch of squash plants and displays a large squash in Marinette County.
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Woman Prepares Beans for Canning

Date: 1917
Description: Woman sitting and preparing string beans for canning.
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Cooking Class Preparing a Turkey for Baking

Date: 11 19 1952
Description: Mrs. K. Moldaye mincing an onion for turkey dressing, with another woman looking on, at a Vocational School cooking class.
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Loretta Falci Preparing Sarsa

Date: 1941
Description: Loretta Falci (Lorenzina Fiocco Falci), an Italian woman, preparing sarsa, tomato paste, on boards on the porch of her home, 622 Milton Street. Milton Stre...
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Cutting String Beans

Date: 1943
Description: Elevated view of a woman cutting string beans at a kitchen counter. A pot on a stovetop and a sink are in the background.
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Madison Community Chest Gardening

Date: 06 21 1949
Description: Madison Community Chest sponsored Farley tract community garden. Mrs. Rex L. Liebenberg is picking peas with her children, Lelia (14) and Don (17).
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Madison Community Chest Gardening

Date: 06 21 1949
Description: Madison Community Chest sponsored Farley tract community garden. Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Blankenburg are listening to the radio while working in their plot.
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Madison Community Chest Gardening

Date: 06 21 1949
Description: Madison Community Chest sponsored Farley tract community garden. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond C. Thompson are having a picnic with their children, Charles (11) and...
Poster

Victory Gardens ..More for Them ..More for You

Date: 1944
Description: War Food Administration Design No. 5, "Victory Garden." The poster features a soldier with an arm around a destitute child on the left in muted colors, and...
Poster

Victory Gardens ..More for Them ..More for You

Date: 1943
Description: Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 4, "Victory Gardens." The poster features a soldier with an arm around a destitute child on the left and a happy youn...
Poster

"Do Your Bit--Save the Pit"

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a drawing of a woman scraping pits from fruit into a barrel.Text reads "Stop. Save Prune pits Plum pits Cherry pits Date seeds Olive pits ...
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Woman Eating Canned Food

Date: 05 1926
Description: A woman wearing a beaded dress and necklace is sitting at a table to eat canned corn and peaches.
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Woman in Alley

Date: 1915
Description: View from cobblestone street of a woman wearing a skirt and head scarf moving a barrel of discarded vegetables in an alley. Probably taken near an outdoor ...
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Receiving Crops for Community Kitchen

Date: 09 1928
Description: Man carrying baskets of field crops in to the receiving room of a community kitchen. A woman wearing an apron is standing near the door.
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Woman and Young Girl Canning Beans

Date: 1926
Description: Woman and young girl working in a kitchen canning beans. The girl is standing at the sink running a faucet while the woman is seated at a table using a bea...
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Woman Cutting Green Beans

Date: 1926
Description: Woman in a kitchen using a Burpee bean cutter to slice green beans before canning. The photograph was taken at Harvester Farm.
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Woman and Man Canning Beans

Date: 07 1926
Description: A woman and a man in a kitchen canning beans. The woman is scooping beans from a large pot with a ladle into cans, while the man uses a tabletop hand crank...
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Testing Canned Beans

Date: 10 1927
Description: Woman wearing an apron and identified as Anne Jilk is posing with a can of beans to demonstrate the testing of canned food.

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