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Mother and Children Wrapping Christmas Bread

Date: 12 05 1956
Description: Joan Meyer, 701 Baltzell Street, wrapping loaves of Christmas bread. Watching are children Donnie Meyer, 5, and Mary Jane Meyer, 4.
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Historic Kitchen Interior

Date: 01 08 1953
Description: The kitchen in the home of Lenore and Forrest Middleton, 3241 Highbury Road. The kitchen was built in 1853 by Joseph Statz and houses various early America...
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Historic Kitchen Interior

Date: 01 08 1953
Description: View of the kitchen in the home of Lenore and Forrest Middleton at 3241 Highbury Road. The kitchen was built in 1853 by Joseph Statz and includes various e...
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Bessie Hooker Grinding Poppy Seeds

Date: 06 28 1945
Description: With all Hillsboro striving to honor Vice-Admiral March A. Mitscher, who came for a visit with his mother, Bessie Hooker, a maid in the Mr. and Mrs. Lyle H...
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Girl Scouts Cookie Sale

Date: 04 06 1948
Description: Four Girl Scouts enjoy a snack after delivering Girl Scout cookies, Nancy Reis (Highlands-Mendota Beach School), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Reis, Virg...
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Mrs. Theodore Statz with Her Baby in Apartment

Date: 09 18 1948
Description: Mrs. Theodore Statz and her 6-month old daughter Cindy in the kitchen of their basement apartment at 425 West Wilson Street. They are soon to be evicted be...
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Edith Trowbridge and Son Tom

Date: 03 14 1949
Description: Mrs. L.G. (Edith) Trowbridge, winner of the blue ribbon in the Wisconsin State Journal recipe contest, is slicing a loaf of her winning entry, cinna...
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Bakke House on Odana Road

Date: 02 24 1949
Description: The kitchen in the Westye F. Bakke home at 4818 Odana Road (now 4817 Sherwood Road) showing the breakfast nook of the spacious kitchen which features a lar...
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New Ranch-Style Home of Lloyd Yaudes Family

Date: 03 21 1951
Description: John (age ? #14), Jimmy (#9), and Tommy (#7) in the dining area of the new ranch-style family home of the Lloyd Ysudes family at 526 Virginia Terrace.
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Foster Parent Zelma Stevenson

Date: 03 27 1951
Description: Zelma Stevenson spoon-feeding Jane, a 19-month-old foster child residing at the Stevenson home at 718 West Main Street. Mrs. Stevenson is a member of the f...
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Memorial Union Smorgasbord

Date: 04 03 1951
Description: Paul Cleary gets instructions on how to decorate a baked ham from head chef Maurice Comos for the Smorgasbord at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union...
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Donald and Mary Reppen Residence

Date: 06 14 1951
Description: Mary Reppen standing in the kitchen of her and her husband Donald's new residence at 2901 Sylvan Avenue.
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Ernst Friedlander House

Date: 10 03 1951
Description: View of the dining room in the Ernst Friedlander house. The room features wood paneling, a dining table folded out of the wall, a view of the kitchen throu...
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Kiser House

Date: 07 23 1952
Description: Kitchen in the Elliott and Jennie Kiser house on Old Middleton Road near Heim Avenue, built in 1860 by Joseph Heim.
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Leo Scheberle Residence

Date: 10 28 1953
Description: Interior view of the kitchen and dining room in the residence of Leo Scheberle.
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Christmas Season Activities

Date: 12 11 1954
Description: Jean Brickson and her daughters Ann, age 4, and Betty, age 2, make cut-out Christmas cookies.
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Easter Seal Boy

Date: 03 14 1955
Description: The family of David Lindl, the 1956 "Easter Seal Boy", eating breakfast. They include, from left: father Frank C. Lindl; Dennis, age 17 months; mother Marg...
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Home Economics Day

Date: 03 20 1957
Description: Mary Crain (right), home economist, teacher, dietician, and manager of the West High School cafeteria, supervises two of her students, Linda Gaarder and Al...
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Healy Lane Coffee Hour

Date: 02 20 1958
Description: Monona Village homemakers share their weekday coffee hour at the home of Mrs. Randall Wind. Mrs. Wind holds her daughter Lori, age 2. Guests are Mrs. John ...
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Modern Kitchen

Date: 10 14 1959
Description: Lois Dick, 106 Richland Lane, shows the kitchen which she and her husband Robert planned to suit their family needs and to accommodate their favorite style...

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