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Roasting Chickens

Date: 01 23 1957
Description: A man clad in a chef's apron tests a pan of chicken for doneness.
Photograph

Cooking Turkey

Date: 11 23 1932
Description: Blanche Taylor, dietician at Madison General Hospital, testing turkey in commercial oven in hospital kitchen.
Photograph

Outdoor Oven

Date: 05 05 1894
Description: Outdoor bake oven in a yard near a house, with a dog lying nearby.
Photograph

Joe McCarthy Cooking

Date: 11 1946
Description: Recently-elected Senator Joseph R. McCarthy tasting a favorite recipe for pheasant during vacation.
Photograph

Clara Middleton and Pets

Date: 1905
Description: Clara Middleton sits with a dog and rabbit on her lap in what may be a self-portrait. There is a daybed and treadle sewing machine in the background.
Photograph

Group in Front of Log House

Date: 
Description: Standing in the yard in front of a log house is a man standing and holding crutches in the middle, a woman on the left holding a small girl who is perched ...
Print

The Universal Food Chopper

Date: 1899
Description: A reproduction of an ad or counter card for the Universal Food Chopper. Text on the image reads, "The Universal Food Chopper, and a few of the things it ch...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 750-757

Date: 
Description: Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell
Print

Goff's Restaurant Menu

Date: 01 16 1958
Description: Dinner and children's menu from Goff's Restaurant, with two illustrations of a woman in an apron filling a coffee cup: in the one accompanying 1893, when t...
Book or Pamphlet

Kentucky Advertising Cuts — Pumps, Saddles and Harness

Date: 1913
Description: Features at the top a black and white illustration of a woman standing and using a pump machine at a counter. Cut reads: "Pumps for House & Farm." The bott...

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