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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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Madison Home Appliance and Radion Show

Date: 04 07 1949
Description: Charles M. Mickelson is loading an automatic washer, with the companion dryer at the left, at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show in the East High Sc...
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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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Randall Elementary School Kindergarteners Making Applesauce

Date: 10 12 1949
Description: Randall Elementary School kindergartners are shown making applesauce under the supervision of their teacher Marguerite Drew. Stirring the pot is Patty Hurl...
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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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Ruth B. Glassow House Interior

Date: 05 04 1949
Description: Interior view of a room, probably the basement, in the house of Professor Ruth B. Glassow at 1635 Norman Way. The house had been a barn on the estate of Jo...
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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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Senior Girl Scout Conference

Date: 03 12 1951
Description: Dorothy Stephenson presses the tie for her scout uniform prior to the Senior Girl Scout Conference of Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois. She is a se...
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Contest Premiums

Date: 04 19 1951
Description: Display of magazine and newspaper circulation contest premiums: mixer, toaster, radio, two clothing irons, and a knife sharpener.
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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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Westinghouse Vacuum Cleaners

Date: 08 05 1952
Description: A display of Westinghouse vacuum cleaners with a sign "Pick the Winner."
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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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Madison East Shopping Center

Date: 09 28 1953
Description: Exterior of Brickner's Applinaces & TV at the new Madison East Shopping Center on East Washington Avenue, with a car parked in front.
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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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Chef Carson Gulley

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: Carson Gulley, senior chef at the University of Wisconsin residence halls, putting on a cooking demonstration at the Loraine Hotel as part of a Norge home ...
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Stay-At-Home Mothers

Date: 05 03 1954
Description: Mary Heine wraps a bandage around the leg of her daughter Sally, age 8. The photograph was taken as part of a Mother's Day article featuring the many roles...

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