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| Date: | 05 1923 |
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| Description: | Miss Neary drawing a bucket of water from a well next to a farmhouse. The original caption reads: "Drawing water from well. Miss Neary posing. Mr. Hyde pho... |
| Date: | 04 17 1957 |
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| Description: | A Girl Scout crocheting doilies at a senior citizens' care center with her "adoptive grandmother." |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for a washer wringer from the 1913 Sears Catalog. |
| Date: | 01 23 1957 |
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| Description: | A man clad in a chef's apron tests a pan of chicken for doneness. |
| Date: | 11 25 1965 |
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| Description: | A man takes pleasure in the carving of the Thanksgiving turkey, with other food items in the foreground and vending machines behind him. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Cooks preparing food for fellow workers with Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Simon Overby at home in their parlor with books, family portraits, and an organ with sheet music. Mr. Overby sits in a chair with a cane and a... |
| Date: | 05 03 1946 |
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| Description: | Window display at Harry S. Manchester's, Inc., 2-6 East Mifflin Street, featuring the "Can-o-mat" can openers, "Can-o-mat, fully automatic, streamlined bea... |
| Date: | 10 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of men and women sitting around a table, sampling slices of Oscar Mayer meat products in the Oscar Mayer laboratory. A women in a lo... |
| Date: | 10 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of five women researchers performing various aspects of food research and related activities in a test kitchen and laboratory at the... |
| Date: | 01 25 1944 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of those in attendence at a dinner to honor 14 retiring employees of the Division of Buildings and Grounds of the Wisconsin Bureau of Engine... |
| Date: | 02 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of twelve people sitting around the table at the Jeanne Mueller and Leonard Helminiak wedding dinner at the Madison Club. |
| Date: | 09 09 1943 |
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| Description: | Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef, proudly displaying his spice collection. |
| Date: | 02 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Decorative wood sewing machine cabinet. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Two nurses and four elderly people sitting behind buffet table at St. Mary's Hospital, 720 South Brooks Street. |
| Date: | 12 13 1940 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Nelson's Jewelry Store, 21 North Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 01 03 1938 |
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| Description: | Testing a Westinghouse refrigerator (door open with food inside and woman standing behind the open door) with wires from an Official Test Panel attached to... |
| Date: | 09 13 1937 |
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| Description: | A woman is looking into a Westinghouse refrigerator full of food. There is an official test panel with 2 meters on top of the refrigerator. |
| Date: | 03 31 1937 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Lions Club members seated around tables in the Neighborhood House, 768 W. Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 03 01 1937 |
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| Description: | Interior of Cardinal Hotel Bar, 416-418 E. Wilson Street. |
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