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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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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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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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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: 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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National Home Demonstration Week

Date: 04 12 1949
Description: Young homemakers, Caroline Reierson, 615 Dennett Drive, and Arveda Kuhlmey, 713 Dennett Drive, experiment with a new culinary process for cooking meat. The...
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Kitchern Breakfast Nook in A.J. Sweet Residence

Date: 08 30 1949
Description: Kitchen breakfast nook in the residence of Mr. and Mrs. A.J. (Sara) Sweet, 209 North Spooner Street. The drapes and wallpaper feature a fruit design with t...
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Interior of the Mr. & Mrs. Kieth Roberts House

Date: 05 06 1949
Description: Kitchen in the home of Mr. & Mrs. Kieth Roberts, 13 S. Midvale Blvd., one of four homes designed and constructed by Marshall Erdman for war veterans with s...
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Peterson House Kitchen

Date: 09 29 1949
Description: Kitchen in the house of Arthur Peterson at 4175 Cherokee Drive.
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New Housing Designs On Shore Acres Road

Date: 03 23 1950
Description: A woman is standing in a modern kitchen while peering into a top-loading dishwasher. The home builders were Ivan Gregory and Jack Klund of Space, Inc. The...
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Charles and Fern Thompson House

Date: 07 03 1951
Description: The kitchen in the new home of Charles and Fern Thompson, 3539 Topping Road, Shorewood Hills.
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Philip C. and Kathleen Rosenthal House Kitchen

Date: 10 19 1951
Description: Philip and Kathleen Rosenthal's salmon-red house in Shorewood Hills at 3668 Lake Mendota Drive, designed by Milwaukee architect Alvin Jansama and built in ...
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Biddick Home

Date: 07 10 1952
Description: Kitchen of the Roscoe Biddick home at 2509 Hoard Street. The house was built entirely by the Biddicks and several friends.
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"Heart Kitchen" for the Cardiac Patient

Date: 09 17 1952
Description: The "heart kitchen," a new kitchen designed to show women with heart trouble how to cut their work in half, recently constructed in the Madison Vocational ...
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Leo Scheberle Residence

Date: 10 28 1953
Description: Interior view of the kitchen and dining room in the residence of Leo Scheberle.
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Christmas Customs

Date: 12 14 1953
Description: Hannah Heegaard-Jensen demonstrates a Christmas tradition by frying ableskivers on Christmas Eve.
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Ernie Terhall House

Date: 08 08 1954
Description: Interior view of the kitchen of the Ernie Terhill house in Sun Prairie at 560 Kelly Street. The kitchen contains cabinets, an electric stove, and a work s...

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