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Colonial Kitchen in Historical Museum

Date: 11 07 1944
Description: Isomel Billings is using an old-fashioned broom, Lietzel Pelican and Patricia Cirves are operating a sausage grinder. The women are University of Wisconsin...
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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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Mrs. Glenn M. Wise, Wisconsin Secretary of State

Date: 08 1955
Description: Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John Wise), Wisconsin's first woman Secretary of State, posing in the kitchen cooking.
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Dorothy Flicek

Date: 02 22 1955
Description: Kitchen designer Dorothy Flicek is standing behind a kitchen room divider she designed for her home, located at 3829 Ridgeway Avenue.
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Rinso Laundry Soap Display with Bendix Washer and Dryer

Date: 09 09 1952
Description: A Rinso laundry soap display stands in a grocery store. The sign reads, "Vote for Rinso! Win a Bendix home laundry" and also included in the display are a ...
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Girls Baking Cookies

Date: 12 16 1952
Description: Susie Kamm and Nancy Miles putting cookies into the oven. The girls are members of the 8th grade home economics class at West Junior High School. The class...
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Corporal Duane Haralson and Parents

Date: 02 16 1944
Description: Corporal Duane Haralson with his parents, Rufus and Naomi, in the kitchen of their home at 604 Schiller Court. He was home after two years service in the M...
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Washing Machine Mechanic

Date: 12 20 1944
Description: A mechanic in the service department of Hefty Sales Corporation is preparing to do a complete overhaul of a washing machine.
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Water Heater

Date: 12 27 1945
Description: Electric water heater with spigot for home hot water system, taken for J. Morey.
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Four Men Photographed for Hankscraft Company

Date: 10 1946
Description: Group portrait of four men, including one in uniform, taken for the Hankscraft Company, 1007 East Washington Avenue. Photograph may include Marshall W. Han...
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Madison Soap Box Derby, Car Construction

Date: 06 18 1947
Description: Ed Gesteland, who is fourteen years old, is shown working on his Soap Box derby racer in the basement of his home at 4221 Wanetah Trail. Behind him, with h...
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Man near Oven at Memorial Union Kitchen

Date: 10 08 1947
Description: Man standing at an oven at the Memorial Union kitchen, University of Wisconsin-Madison. A person can be seen standing on the right with a camera or light.
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Man Vacuuming a Cow

Date: 08 13 1948
Description: A man vacuuming the back of a cow in a barn using a DAIRY-VAC machine.
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University of Wisconsin Home Economics Class

Date: 10 28 1948
Description: University of Wisconsin home economics student Charlene Bishop, making pancakes in a laboratory.
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Fire at 15 S. Bedford Street

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Week-old oil heater which exploded and caused the fire in the tenement-type house at 15 South Bedford Street, which is located at the rear of the city gara...
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Spring House Cleaning

Date: 04 01 1949
Description: William G. "Bill" Fisher, 733 Copeland Avenue, shares housecleaning tasks by cleaning, oiling and checking the family vacuum cleaner.
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Remodeled Kitchen in the Walter Renk Home

Date: 04 12 1949
Description: Remodeled kitchen in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Renk, Route 2, Sun Prairie showing the four rotating corner cupboards next to the refrigerator.
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Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show

Date: 04 07 1949
Description: Mrs. Robert C. Pittenger and son, Mike, examine a new electric dishwasher at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show in the East High School gymnasium.
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Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show

Date: 04 07 1949
Description: Dorothy Lorenzen looks at several small kitchen appliances while she holds one of the earliest electric toasters at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Sh...
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Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show

Date: 04 07 1949
Description: Mary C. Donahoe inspecting an antique gas range next to new model at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show in the East High School gymnasium.

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