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Making Buckwheat Pancakes

Date: 09 13 1949
Description: Elderly woman making pancakes on griddle at wood burning stove.
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Baking Bread for Communion

Date: 09 25 1963
Description: Elevated view of two women, one pulling loaves of bread from the oven and the other glazing crusts in the church kitchen.
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Brand New Oven

Date: 1950
Description: Woman displays a brand new oven/stove.
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Pouring Kerosene on Stove Fire

Date: 08 1927
Description: A woman pretends to pour kerosene on a hot stove as part of an International Harvester Agricultural Extension Department campaign to make families aware of...
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Mrs. Glenn M. Wise, Wisconsin Secretary of State

Date: 08 1955
Description: Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John Wise), Wisconsin's first woman Secretary of State, posing in the kitchen cooking.
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Man Vacuuming a Cow

Date: 08 13 1948
Description: A man vacuuming the back of a cow in a barn using a DAIRY-VAC machine.
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Pressure Kettle

Date: 11 1919
Description: A woman wearing a full-length apron using a pressure kettle on a stove top, probably for home canning.
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Wiedmeyer Home — Interior

Date: 2004
Description: Florence and Harold Wiedmeyer have been married for 65 years and lived here for 62 years. They raised 12 children.
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Colonel Haskell Receiving Millionth Shell

Date: 06 1953
Description: Col. Robert K. Haskell (left) receiving the one millionth shell manufactured by the Malleable Iron Range Co. of Beaver Dam in a ceremony at the manufacturi...
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Giese Kitchen

Date: 2004
Description: After she baked some apple pies, Frieda Giese, 85, lounges in her expansive kitchen.
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Woman Chopping Wood

Date: 10 04 1923
Description: A woman wearing a dress using an axe to split a log into firewood. A hand-operated washing machine is standing in the yard of a farmhouse in the background...
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Chef Carson Gulley

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: Carson Gulley, senior chef at the University of Wisconsin residence halls, putting on a cooking demonstration at the Loraine Hotel as part of a Norge home ...
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Wisconsin State Journal Recipe Contest

Date: 10 13 1957
Description: Camille Mathias, the third grand prize winner in the Wisconsin State Journal's second annual recipe contest, preparing her recipe entry, Chicken Noodle Piq...
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United Givers' Fund Red Feather Services

Date: 10 15 1957
Description: Mrs. Cass Williams, executive director of the Black Hawk Council of Girl Scouts, explains the workings of an outdoor stove to Jeanne Matoba. The council is...
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Annual Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 05 1957
Description: Fond du Lac County agricultural agent George Massey looking over an exhibit of early household equipment at the annual University of Wisconsin's Farm and H...
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Truck Driver Washing Clothes at Truck Stop

Date: 1966
Description: Truck driver washing clothes at an American Oil Company truck stop.
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Wisconsin State Fair Exhibit

Date: 1926
Description: Demonstration booth in the Women's Building at the Wisconsin State Fair, showing electrical kitchen equipment.
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State Capitol Building Electrical System

Date: 10 30 1959
Description: Frank E. Nordeen, a state engineering employee, pointing to the main electric switchboard in the State Capitol building basement, while standing next to an...
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Two Sisters Wed Two Brothers and Share House

Date: 08 04 1961
Description: Doris, left, and Helen Saalsaa working together preparing dinner in their ultra-modern kitchen, which they designed for two cooks.
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Mrs. MacLean

Date: 10 07 1965
Description: Probably a portrait of Mrs. MacLean in her kitchen, taken for the "Wisconsin State Journal" cookbook section published Oct. 17, 1965.

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