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Woman and Daughter Drinking Milk

Date: 1976
Description: A woman and her three-year-old daughter are getting glasses of milk from a container in a refrigerator. The mother is dressed in a pant suit, while her dau...
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Northern Wisconsin Center Home Economics Class

Date: 1930
Description: Slightly elevated view of six women wearing aprons learning domestic skills in a kitchen classroom. Two women on the left stand at a sink washing dishes, t...
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Inside of the West Point Freedom House

Date: 1965
Description: A man stands in a kitchen, while a woman on the far right of the frame looks on. The building is a Freedom House used by civil rights volunteers.
Photograph

Home Economics

Date: 
Description: Slightly elevated view of six young women posed in a kitchen. Two women on the left stand at a sink washing dishes, two women stand at a table behind them,...
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
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Wisconsin State Fair Exhibit

Date: 1926
Description: Demonstration booth in the Women's Building at the Wisconsin State Fair, showing electrical kitchen equipment.
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State Capitol Building Electrical System

Date: 10 30 1959
Description: Frank E. Nordeen, a state engineering employee, pointing to the main electric switchboard in the State Capitol building basement, while standing next to an...
Magazine or Periodical

Home Economics Department Kitchen

Date: 02 1948
Description: View of the new home economics department kitchen. Zelma Purchase is at the range and Priscilla Cobb is standing at the sink.
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...
Photograph

Home Economics Class

Date: 1910
Description: Home economics students (all women) dressed in aprons, dresses, and hats, stand in rows at counters tending pots at the Winnebago County School of Agricult...
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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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Dane County Health Survey Meeting

Date: 03 1955
Description: Three ladies are standing in the kitchen while preparing the luncheon for those attending a planning meeting for the upcoming Dane County health survey. Sh...
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Cooking on the New Stove

Date: 1905
Description: A woman is stirring a pot on what looks like a new stove. It is a gleaming Acme, from Newark Stove Works. There is a warming closet in the top half. The ca...
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Alfred Lunt Coring Tomatoes

Date: 1949
Description: Alfred Lunt coring tomatoes in the kitchen at Ten Chimneys.
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Alfred and Lynn in the Summer Kitchen

Date: 1933
Description: Alfred Lunt stands at the edge of a table holding a beverage, near Lynn Fontanne who is sitting, in the kitchen of the cottage at their Ten Chimneys estate...
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Two Sisters Wed Two Brothers and Share House

Date: 08 04 1961
Description: Doris, left, and Helen Saalsaa working together preparing dinner in their ultra-modern kitchen, which they designed for two cooks.
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Ridgeway Lumber Store

Date: 1948
Description: Interior of the Ridgeway Lumber Store before the opening on May 15, 1948. Owned by Elmer and Willard Droster, and G. Wichman.
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Ridgeway Lumber Store

Date: 1948
Description: Interior of the Ridgeway Lumber Store before the opening on May 15, 1948. Owned by Elmer and Willard Droster, and G. Wichman.

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