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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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North Central Airline Stewardesses

Date: 11 10 1954
Description: Stewardess Ruth Otto cleaning an apartment at 3160 East Washington Avenue which she shares with two other stewardesses. The photograph was taken to accompa...
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North Central Airline Stewardesses

Date: 11 10 1954
Description: Stewardess Coleen Ogle cooking in the apartment she shares with three other stewardesses. Art Kemp, first officer and co-pilot, is looking on. The photogra...
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Attic Angel Association Third Annual House and Garden Tour

Date: 07 07 1956
Description: The featured kitchen utility room area at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nic J. Schmitz at 607 Farwell Drive is on the third annual benefit tour of the Attic Ang...
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Attic Angel Association Third Annual House and Garden Tour

Date: 07 07 1956
Description: The utility room at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nic J. Schmitz, 607 Farwell Drive, is connected to the kitchen by a small hallway. It features a washer-dryer,...
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Bringing Food to the Table

Date: 08 14 1956
Description: Margaret Klipstein bakes many cookies for her family. Part of the photo spread for the Wisconsin State Journal Centennial Cookbook Recipe Contest.
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Career Girls Entertain

Date: 02 15 1957
Description: Jean Ziegler cooking spaghetti for a dinner party at her apartment at 122 East Gilman Street, Apt. 205.
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Home Economics Day

Date: 03 20 1957
Description: Mary Crain (right), home economist, teacher, dietician, and manager of the West High School cafeteria, supervises two of her students, Linda Gaarder and Al...
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Monona Grove High School Student Council Kitchen Tour

Date: 04 03 1957
Description: Mrs. Harvey (Bonita) Hubanks sitting next to a fireplace in the family room adjacent to the kitchen in their home at 4206 Jerome Street in Madison. The kit...
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Wisconsin State Journal Recipe Contest

Date: 10 13 1957
Description: Camille Mathias, the third grand prize winner in the Wisconsin State Journal's second annual recipe contest, preparing her recipe entry, Chicken Noodle Piq...
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Annual Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 05 1957
Description: Fond du Lac County agricultural agent George Massey looking over an exhibit of early household equipment at the annual University of Wisconsin's Farm and H...
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week Exhibits

Date: 02 03 1958
Description: Mrs. Herman Erfurth (Verona), Mrs. Edgar Messer (Beaver Dam), and Mrs. LaVerne Johnson (Verona). There is a mannequin, (in the background) and women are vi...
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Women Make Year's Supply of Lefsa

Date: 11 19 1954
Description: Mrs. Roy J. Nelson, 145 Marquette Street, is shown using a "floyve" stick to turn the lefsa while it bakes. She and her two sisters gathered at one of thei...

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