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Woman Broiling Hamburger

Date: 1950
Description: An apron-clad woman broiling hamburgers in the kitchen.
Photograph

Kitchen Interior

Date: 1910
Description: Woman baking in a large kitchen with lean-to pantry and a wood-burning stove. The sconces or reflectors on the kerosene lamps intensified the light.
Photograph

Cooking Classes at Hillside Home School

Date: 
Description: Students in cooking class at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school, operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Magazine or Periodical

IH Refrigeration Takes Broad New Strides

Date: 01 1947
Description: Cover of International Harvester World magazine showing a woman standing next to an International Harvester freezer. International Harvester also ma...
Photograph

Mary Ellen Nevin and her Sister

Date: 1897
Description: Interior of the kitchen at 12 North Broom Street, the residence of James and Mary Ellen Nevin, showing Mrs. Nevin and her sister cooking. James Nevin was ...
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Father in Apron Cooking

Date: 1960
Description: A father standing over a pan wearing an apron. He is cooking and smoking a cigar.
Photograph

Mrs. Mutchler Making Soup

Date: 05 12 1933
Description: Mrs. Wilson Mutchler of Stoners' Prairie farm at 2533 Mutchler Road, south of Madison, cooking soup on a woodstove.
Photograph

Dreams Come True

Date: 
Description: Advertisement for International Harvester refrigerators and freezers. Depicts a woman wearing an apron over a dress standing near a freezer and refrigerato...
Photograph

Woman in Kitchen

Date: 
Description: Composite photograph/painting of a woman standing and pouring (fake) water into a cracked basin, with the water spilling onto the floor.
Photograph

Making Buckwheat Pancakes

Date: 09 13 1949
Description: Elderly woman making pancakes on griddle at wood burning stove.
Photograph

Baking Bread for Communion

Date: 09 25 1963
Description: Elevated view of two women, one pulling loaves of bread from the oven and the other glazing crusts in the church kitchen.
Photograph

Shooting a Refrigerator Advertisement

Date: 07 31 1950
Description: A woman wearing an apron posing with a refrigerator in a photography studio while a photographer takes a picture for advertising.
Photograph

Roasting Chickens

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

Irma Harding, Spokesperson for IH Refrigerators

Date: 1947
Description: Publicity photograph of Irma Harding pointing out features of a new model refrigerator. Ms. Harding was a fictional character who acted as a spokesperson ...
Photograph

East High School Boys' Cooking Class

Date: 06 07 1934
Description: Four boys in chef's hats and aprons are preparing food at a counter and stove in the East High School boys' cooking class. Left to right: Arthur Hanson, Ke...
Photograph

Mr. Gannon and Cook in Transient Home

Date: 08 04 1933
Description: Director Tom C. Gannon, (on the right) and Assistant Chef Ed Masury in apron, who is drawing a cup of coffee, standing at the stove in the transient home k...
Photograph

Kitchen Work

Date: 10 07 1931
Description: U.W. co-ed, Maybelle Goodyear of Sauk City, earns money to pay for school by preparing a meal in the kitchen of Dr. and Mrs. C.R. Mooney, at 306 Virginia T...
Photograph

Crysteel Electric Range Display

Date: 12 03 1926
Description: Crysteel Electric Range (stove) display at Park Hotel with mannequin and Santa Claus.
Photograph

Woman Demonstrating New IH Refrigerator

Date: 1950
Description: Advertising photograph of a woman wearing an apron over a dress holding the door of an International Harvester refrigerator open.
Book or Pamphlet

International Harvester Refrigerator Brochure

Date: 1949
Description: Cover of a brochure for International Harvester refrigerators with an image of a man and woman admiring a refrigerator stocked with food and drink.

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