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Prison Cook Preparing Food

Date: 03 26 1968
Description: Slightly elevated view of prison cooks preparing dinner for inmates.
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Fauerbach Beer Signs at Concession Stand

Date: 08 27 1933
Description: View towards the Fauerbach concession stand, with five servers, all men, standing behind the counter at the Dane County fair. There are signs for Coca-Cola...
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Hot Tamale Vendor

Date: 10 29 1931
Description: William Pearl with his "Tia Juana hot tamales" cart and a woman customer eating a hot tamale.
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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 Standing Behind Buffet Table

Date: 01 30 1945
Description: Elevated view of chef Carson Gulley, standing behind a buffet table.
Postcard

Carson Gulley Catering Services

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Description: Carson Gulley, in chef's hat, is leaning out of the driver's side of his catering truck. The promotional card indicates that the chef specialized in large ...
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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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Carson Gulley, Caterer

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Description: Carson Gulley, the well-known University of Wisconsin-Madison chef, serving a catered meal at the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed First Unitarian Society Meeti...
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Rolling Kitchen in France

Date: 09 16 1918
Description: Food being prepared on a moving kitchen for soldiers fighting in Sainte-Mihiel, France.
Print

My Heart is Shaking Only For You

Date: 1945
Description: Valentine's Day card of a soda fountain with two girls seated on stools in front of the counter and a soda jerk behind. Two puppies are on the floor near t...
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Workers Arranging Trays of Food

Date: 1970
Description: Two male food service employees preparing trays of food laid out on a table for a Pan American World Airways Boeing 747 in-flight meal. A woman is standing...
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Farm and Home Week

Date: 01 27 1960
Description: Farm and Home Week visitors look at exhibits in the University of Wisconsin home economics building. Watching a demonstration in feeding large groups are, ...
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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 ...
Postcard

From an American Red Cross L.O.C. Canteen in France

Date: 1917
Description: Uniformed soldiers gathered at a counter laden with sandwiches and doughnuts. A woman in a Red Cross uniform at left pours coffee from a carafe.
Postcard

Hilger's at the Stoplight

Date: 1975
Description: Text on front reads: "Hilger's at the Stoplight, Tomah, Wis." Rubber stamped on the reverse: "Hilger's Pop Corn Wagon. At the Stop & Go Light, Tomah, Wisco...

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