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Infant with Grandmother

Date: 1950
Description: A young child examines a children's book with her grandmother.
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Woman in Kitchen

Date: 1950
Description: Woman pouring a cup of coffee.
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Woman with Oven

Date: 1950
Description: A woman displays an oven.
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Kitchen

Date: 1950
Description: A woman poses her kitchen with all of the modern conveniences.
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Melvina Capron and her Radio

Date: 08 02 1933
Description: Melvina (Mrs. Samuel) Capron, 222 N. Bassett Street, listening to a radio and reenacting the night in 1923 when she heard that President Warren G. Harding ...
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Writing a Note

Date: 1950
Description: A woman writes a note at a small writing desk in her kitchen.
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Winner of Christmas Home Decorating Contest

Date: 12 22 1956
Description: Ruth Bass, 4216 Mandrake Road, receiving a clock radio as a prize in the Christmas outdoor home lighting contest from Lucien G. Schlimgen, Jr., president o...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Home Economics

Date: 12 09 1947
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison students at a weiner roast in the recreation room of the University of Wisconsin Home Management house at 1430 Linden Drive...
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 03 1948
Description: Wisconsin's First Lady, Mrs. Oscar (Mary) Rennebohm, left, greeting Mrs. Gaylord Flowers (left), Oconto Falls, and Mrs. Herbert Buseman, Gillett, at a tea ...
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 03 1948
Description: Mrs. Edwin B. (Rosa) Fred, extreme left, wife of the university president, with a delegation of guests from Sun Prairie, at a tea at the Wisconsin executiv...
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 04 1948
Description: Three women looking at an exhibit at the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week, showing room furnishing revolving around rural paintings. Pictured lef...
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 03 1948
Description: Elizabeth Davies (left), Baraboo, president of the Wisconsin Home Agents' association, talking to Mary Baldwin, wife of the Dean of the University of Wisco...
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 04 1948
Description: Three women looking at an exhibit at the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week showing color combinations for clothing and accessories. Pictured left ...
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 03 1948
Description: Mrs. Raymond Sayre, Ackworth, Iowa, president of the Associated Country Women of the World, chatting with Miss Eva Belle (left), and Mrs. Walter Pierce, Ba...
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 03 1948
Description: From left to right: Mrs. Charles Dernbach, Almond; Mrs. Walter Kuhrt, Almond; and Mrs. W.M. Erdenberger, Prairie du Chien, at a tea at the executive reside...
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 04 1948
Description: Mothers of young children view display of "New Uses of Familiar Things" at the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week. Pictured left to right: Susan Ma...
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Youth Journal Photograph

Date: 02 04 1948
Description: A young woman serving as the photographer's assistant is standing beside a woman sitting in a chair wearing a hat, and a Farm and Home Week name tag. She i...
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Jenk and Mother

Date: 1912
Description: Georgia Lloyd Jones holds her son Jenkin Lloyd Jones, born Nov. 1911, on a hobby horse.
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National Home Demonstration Week

Date: 04 12 1949
Description: Tim, 8, and Maureen, 6, listen quietly as their mother, Mrs. Mark Schaefer, reads a bedtime fairy tale at their home on Mineral Point Road. Mrs. Schaefer b...
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Family Service Agency

Date: 05 04 1949
Description: Mrs. Margaret Mentzner, a fulltime employee of the Family Service Agency, is shown caring and cooking for two small children whose mother is sick and absen...

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