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

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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 ...
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Farmer's Birthday

Date: 07 07 1983
Description: John Fitzsimmons and Barton Voegeli take a break from discing the fields to eat the birthday cake that Voegeli's wife made to celebrate the occasion.
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Cook's Choice

Date: 03 19 1964
Description: A chef wearing a toque removes a roast from the oven.
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D.M. Osborne Catalog Cover

Date: 1896
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Osborne agricultural machinery showing a woman and two young girls mixing ingredients for a recipe from an Osborne cata...
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Chef Carson Gulley

Date: 1945
Description: Chef Carson Gulley, University of Wisconsin-Madison residence hall chef, chopping vegetables.
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Carl Bowden

Date: 05 27 1948
Description: Carl Bowden, chef at Maple Bluff Country Club, preparing steaks for a dinner for Big Nine officials.
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Kitchen Crew

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Description: Four men wearing white aprons attend to kitchen duties outdoors at a campsite. There is a tent in the background.
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Man Cooking Over Open Fire

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Description: A man wearing an apron cooks over an open fire at a campsite near a tent. Smoke or sunlight obscures the image.
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Chef Carson Gulley and Apprentices

Date: 01 24 1949
Description: Carson Gulley, head chef at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is shown in the refectory of Van Hise Hall with his class of apprentice chefs. Left to rig...
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Civilian Conservation Corps Cook Staff

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Description: Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) cook staff. Harold Gauer had joined the CCC for a year at a dollar a day in the late 1930's.
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Restaurant Institute at Madison Vocational School

Date: 01 17 1951
Description: William Hovens of Trevor, Wisconsin, a student at the newly-opened Restaurant Institute at Madison Vocational School and a restaurent owner, mixing up a ba...
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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.
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Grand Lodge Hall Kitchen Scene

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Description: Interior view of kitchen at the Grand Lodge Hall with a male cook posed behind a large table underneath a hanging rack of pots and pans. There's a large st...
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Grand Lodge Hall Kitchen Scene

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Description: Interior view of kitchen at the Grand Lodge Hall with a male cook posed behind a large table underneath a hanging rack of pots and pans. There's a large st...
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Hotel Astor Kitchen Workers

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Description: Kitchen workers at the Hotel Astor. Men standing around long wooden tables and an open window at the far end of the room where waiters would pass along foo...
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Hotel Astor Kitchen Workers

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Description: Kitchen workers at the Hotel Astor. Men standing around long tables with a hanging rack of pots and pans over a long table. Plates are piled up on another ...
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Mary's Sanitorium Kitchen Workers

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Description: Two kitchen workers at Mary's Sanitorium stand in a kitchen room with shelves of trays and a warming tray along the walls.
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Canning Demonstration

Date: 1914
Description: A group of men and women surround O.H. Benson as he gives a canning demonstration in the office of County Superintendent Tobin. Canning equipment stands on...
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Student Chef

Date: 1961
Description: A student chef works in the kitchen of a Milwaukee restaurant with two older chefs as part of his training in a Restaurant and Hotel Cookery program at Mil...
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Cooking Class in the Kitchen

Date: 11 08 1984
Description: Students prepare a curried beef dinner in a Waukesha County Technical Institute cooking class led by Juanita Decker (right, in chef's hat).

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