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| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for a washer wringer from the 1913 Sears Catalog. |
| Date: | 01 23 1957 |
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| Description: | A man clad in a chef's apron tests a pan of chicken for doneness. |
| Date: | 01 03 1938 |
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| Description: | Testing a Westinghouse refrigerator (door open with food inside and woman standing behind the open door) with wires from an Official Test Panel attached to... |
| Date: | 09 13 1937 |
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| Description: | A woman is looking into a Westinghouse refrigerator full of food. There is an official test panel with 2 meters on top of the refrigerator. |
| Date: | 10 13 1934 |
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| Description: | John Karch stirring a hot pot of candy syrup on a stove, while trays of finished candy are cooling on the table. |
| Date: | 06 07 1934 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 04 1933 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 10 1933 |
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| Description: | Steve Bradley cooking on a Reliable stove, with an ice cream maker (?) in the foreground. |
| Date: | 11 23 1932 |
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| Description: | Blanche Taylor, dietician at Madison General Hospital, testing turkey in commercial oven in hospital kitchen. |
| Date: | 03 10 1932 |
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| Description: | Display window for A & P Special Automatic Egg Cooker (Hankscraft) "available for 98 cents with purchase of 1 dozen Sunnybrook eggs." |
| Date: | 02 13 1932 |
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| Description: | Green County 4-H Club girl, Helen Haldeman of Monroe, posing in the Madison Gas and Electric Co. demonstration kitchen, while she competes in the state che... |
| Date: | 02 13 1932 |
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| Description: | Dane county 4-H Club girl, Agatha Dermosky, of Sun Prairie, rolls pie dough in the Madison Gas and Electric Co. demonstration kitchen during competition in... |
| Date: | 10 07 1931 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 21 1931 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the stage of the Garrick Theatre set up for Cooking School, with household appliances set up to look like a dining room. |
| Date: | 12 03 1926 |
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| Description: | Crysteel Electric Range (stove) display at Park Hotel with mannequin and Santa Claus. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An interior view of a kitchen/dining area/den, from behind the electric range looking into the den. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Advertising photograph of a woman wearing an apron over a dress holding the door of an International Harvester refrigerator open. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mr. Peterson is sitting in a rocking chair reading the newspaper and smoking a pipe, while Mrs. Peterson is standing at the stove with their young son, Jam... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Curt Moore selling "one minute" washing machines to a farmer's wife. The washing machines are loaded in the back of an International "Red Baby" truck. The... |
| Date: | 05 16 1928 |
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| Description: | Woman washing clothes with a washing machine powered by a a McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 HP engine. |
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