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Photograph

Prison Cook Preparing Food

Date: 03 26 1968
Description: Slightly elevated view of prison cooks preparing dinner for inmates.
Painting

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 
Description: The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison.
Drawing

Barman — Tom

Date: 1932
Description: Tom bartending at Sam's.
Photograph

Raftsman's Series No. 1408: Cook and Cookie Before Dinner

Date: 
Description: Stereograph of a group of men on a raft. The man in the foreground is sitting and peeling potatoes. The young man splitting wood is Ashley Bennett, son of ...
Photograph

Baker and Bread

Date: 05 14 1964
Description: A baker removes multiple loaves of bread from the oven for consumption in both bakery and restaurant.
Photograph

Cutting the Cheese

Date: 1950
Description: Wisconsin Department of Agriculture workers cut large blocks of Swiss cheese.
Photograph

Meat Market

Date: 1910
Description: A customer waits while butchers stand behind the counter of a butcher shop, surrounded by meat hanging from the ceiling.
Photograph

A Full Dozen

Date: 09 1904
Description: Edgar and Jennie Krueger playfully hunting for eggs.
Photograph

Fresh Bread from the Oven

Date: 
Description: A baker, clad in apron, pulls a tray of freshly-baked rolls from the oven.
Photograph

Navy Cooks and Bakers Group

Date: 09 09 1943
Description: Ten Navy cooks and bakers watching meat carving demonstration by Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef. Soldiers include Robert W. Merryman, Vernon R....
Photograph

Steam Locomotive Used at Fauerbach Brewery

Date: 06 20 1933
Description: Group portrait of eleven workers installing Plibrico Jointless Firebrick in front of a steam locomotive parked beside Fauerbach Brewery and used to provide...
Photograph

Steam Locomotive at Fauerbach Brewery

Date: 06 20 1933
Description: Group portrait of eleven workers installing Plibrico Jointless Firebrick in front of a railroad steam locomotive parked beside Fauerbach Brewery. This was ...
Photograph

Toledo Scale

Date: 05 20 1928
Description: Man weighing small bucket on Toledo platform scale at Rewey Creamery.
Photograph

Gardner Bakery

Date: 04 02 1928
Description: Gardner Baking Company, showing men taking Purity Bread from ovens, 849 E. Washington Avenue.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Bindlochine Catalog Cover

Date: 1892
Description: Front cover of a catalog for the McCormick Bindlochine (grain binder). The color illustration features two small boys playing with a toy binder and horse m...
Photograph

Production of Maple Syrup

Date: 1927
Description: Man in "sugar bush" (grove of maples) boiling down maple sap in production of maple syrup. Probably Wisconsin.
Photograph

Munger's Mill and Dam

Date: 1895
Description: Munger's Mill and dam, with men standing on and around the dam.
Photograph

Chef Frosting a Cake

Date: 12 21 1944
Description: Otto Wiedholz, Vienna French Pastry Shop, 334 State Street, frosting a cake. Otto and his wife, Elsie, 414 Chestnut Street, are the owners of the pastry sh...
Photograph

Boiling Vats at Sugar Mill

Date: 1915
Description: Workers standing beside boiling vats at a sugar mill where the sap is boiled and made into sorghum molasses.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Winter Scene at Little Rib

Date: 01 25 1911
Description: Photomontage of a winter scene with men fishing on a frozen lake. Two men pull on the line attached to the fish's mouth, while one holds an axe above its h...

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