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USO Staff Serve Soldiers

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Description: A smiling USO staff worker serves pancakes to hungry soldiers.
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Vending Machines

Date: 04 20 1967
Description: High school freshman use vending machines for lunch.
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Vending Machines

Date: 1955
Description: Vending and dispensing machines display. Banner above also reads: (Increased dairy sales and better health for your community."
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Selling Dried Corn At the Municipal Market

Date: 1918
Description: A member of the Dane County Council of Defense Food Board Women's Committee sells dried corn at the farmer's market. Women's organizations sold wheat subst...
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Cream Puff Concession

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Description: Four female bakers are holding up large trays laden with fresh cream puffs at a State Fair midway concession stand, while an eager crowd stands waiting in ...
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Beer on Tap at the Wisconsin State Fair

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Description: Elevated view of employees and patrons gathered around a beer and sandwich concession stand on the midway at the Wisconsin State Fair, where Gettelman On T...
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Carson Gulley Christmas Card

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Description: Bea and Carson Gulley's Christmas card promoting their catering service. Text on the card reads: "A Blessed Christmas."
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Southern Wisconsin Produce Company

Date: 1937
Description: View of the Southern Wisconsin Produce building and its side loading dock, busy with orders. In addition, there are railroad tracks directly in front of th...
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Temperance Fair Booth

Date: 1964
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...
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Eating Near the Chuck Wagon

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Description: A dozen or so ranch hands sitting on the ground and eating on the plain. The chuckwagon is behind them. A large coffee pot and a bucket of rolls is on the ...
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America's Dairyland Cart

Date: 1939
Description: Cart built by Ideal Body Co. for dairy industry for use at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Canberry Pickers Lunch

Date: 1958
Description: Lunch counter during harvest season at a Wisconsin cranberry marsh. Cranberry pickers enjoy a break and lunch during the busy harvest season.
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Senior Center Lunch

Date: 01 1979
Description: Lunch at a Senior Center.
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Out for Lunch

Date: 1979
Description: The driver helps a senior citizen board the bus after a lunch at the Medford Senior Center.
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Lunch Time

Date: 01 1979
Description: Lunchtime at a senior center in central Wisconsin. Congressman David R. Obey can be seen talking in the background. Although the location has not been iden...
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Senior Bus

Date: 01 1979
Description: Bus operated by the Portage County Commission on Aging and its driver. The bus took senior citizens to lunch at the Senior Center and provided other servic...
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Dairy Days

Date: 06 1990
Description: Congressman David R. Obey from Wausau and State Senator David Helbach from Stevens Point serving scrambled eggs at Marshfield Dairy Days.
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Obey at the Fair

Date: 1976
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey chats with a constituent manning the dairy bar as part of a campaign shoot.
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Scouts at Wisconsin Pavilion

Date: 07 09 1965
Description: A group of scouts enjoy a snack at picnic tables outside the Wisconsin Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair. Each scout has a glass of milk and a young woman ...
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Memorial Union Terrace

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Description: Elevated view of the flagstone terrace. People sit at tables in the sunburst chairs. There are shadows of the empty chairs on the terrace as well as the s...

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