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| Date: | 05 1960 |
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| Description: | Two women serving coffee to customers at a coffee shop. Richland Center, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | A father standing over a pan wearing an apron. He is cooking and smoking a cigar. |
| Date: | 08 04 1933 |
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| Description: | Director Tom C. Gannon, (on the right) and Assistant Chef Ed Masury in apron, who is drawing a cup of coffee, standing at the stove in the transient home k... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mr. Peterson is sitting in a rocking chair reading the newspaper and smoking a pipe, while Mrs. Peterson is standing at the stove with their young son, Jam... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Two men enjoy coffee and a cigarette at an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant. At this time cigarette smoking in Madison restaurants took place i... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Four men in informal attire on their coffee break in an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant. They are sitting in a booth identified as a no smokin... |
| Date: | 10 01 1938 |
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| Description: | J. Robert Taylor cleaning a furnace. He has a broom and a small brush in hand, a pipe in his mouth, and a dirty rag placed on his head. He is reading a doc... |
| 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: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of Alma and J. Robert Taylor. Alma is sitting in a chair holding a sock to be darned, while putting her hand over J. Robert's mouth. He i... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the photographer J. Robert Taylor sitting at a table smoking a pipe and possibly woodworking. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Four members of an unidentified local in United Packinghouse Workers of America District 1 (Burette King, Sidney Coleman, Aljay Williams, and Joseph Kuzma)... |
| Date: | 12 10 1951 |
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| Description: | Portrait of nine members of the Friendship Club, meeting to work on a cookbook. The Friendship Club is an interracial women's club, formed to develop mutua... |
| Date: | 12 15 1951 |
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| Description: | Four members of the Friendship Club stand around a table while assembling a cookbook. Left to right, Mrs. Malcom Gordon, Gertrude Taliaferro, Mrs. William ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with man sitting in an easy chair in front of a fireplace. He is smoking a pipe and reading a book. There is a model sailing ship on the mantl... |
| Date: | 07 28 1953 |
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| Description: | William and Audrey Hobbins cooking a hot dog on the grill at the Mendota Yacht Club beachcombers party. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | A pencil drawing of of a costume for Patricia Neal as Alma Brown in the film "Hud". The woman in the drawing is wearing a dress, apron, and low shoes, and ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Man on a Reynolds hay tedder pulled by team of work horses. Another man stands supervising. In the far background beyond a fence are two separate farmstead... |
| Date: | 04 11 1942 |
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| Description: | Five illegal gambling machines in Gardner's Cocktail Lounge at La Grange, on U.S. Highway 12. There are two 50¢ slot machines, one 25¢ slot machine, one 10... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | 26th of July Movement rest by a tree in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro is holding an espresso cup in the foreground, and Celia ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | James Stewart and Katharine Hepburn stand by a table with hors d'oeuvres and champagne in a scene still from "The Philadelphia Story" (MGM 1941). |
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