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Painting

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

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Description: The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison.
Print

Indian Sugar Makers

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Description: Illustration of an Indian (possibly Menominee) camp of sugar makers.
Photograph

Two Women Outside a Log Cabin

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Description: Two women stand outside the doorway of a log house in winter. They are posed with a washtub, broom and dust pan.
Photograph

Woman in Kitchen

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

Playing in Canoes on a Lake

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Description: Two women try to knock each other off of their canoes while standing and swinging brooms at each other.
Photograph

Harold McCormick and his Children at Walnut Grove Farm

Date: 1922
Description: Harold F. McCormick (with cup) and his children, left to right: Muriel, Harold, Jr. and Mathilde at the Walnut Grove farm in Rockbridge County.
Photograph

Engine Powered Hay Press on Farm

Date: 1905
Description: Men operating a hay press powered by an International Harvester stationary engine as a woman is looking on. They are working near a barn which has chink-lo...
Photograph

Spring Cleaning

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Description: A woman dust mops the floor while listening to a radiophone that is perched on the window sill.
Print

Fire Company Invitation

Date: 02 04 1864
Description: Embossed invitation to the fourth masquerade ball of the Madison Fire Engine Company #2. The invitation depicts a fire fighter on a ladder carrying a woman...
Photograph

Woman with Axe

Date: 1920
Description: A smiling woman holding an axe holding a pose while chopping wood.
Photograph

Parching Wild Rice

Date: 1907
Description: A Chippewa woman parching wild rice in Lac Vieux Desert. Lac Vieux Desert is a 4200 acre Michigan-Wisconsin boundary water in Vilas County.
Photograph

Spring Valley Cooking School

Date: 02 12 1915
Description: Room filled with women, some with children, attending a Farmers' Institute Cooking School class at Spring Valley, Wisconsin. There is a table with ingredie...
Postcard

Virginia Ross in Kitchen

Date: 1950
Description: Virginia Ross poses at a table in front of a large stove in the kitchen. Caption reads: "Kitchen at Ross's Tel Lake Lodge, Hayward, Wis."
Photograph

Seminole Women Grinding Corn

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Description: A view of two Seminole Native American women grinding corn for "Sofka," a meat stew thickened with vegetables and meal. A man and dog are on the left. Capt...
Photograph

Making Tortillas

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Description: View of four women and five children posing outside of a thatch-roofed home. Work tables and a barrel tub are gathered in front of the building and one wom...
Photograph

Painting of a Cook

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Description: Amateur painting by Eleanor R. Craighill. Representing a woman in an apron and hat polishing(?) a pot in front of the kitchen fireplace in the Governor's P...
Photograph

Grinding Masa

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Description: View of a woman kneeling and grinding corn by hand with the traditional mortar and pestle, the mano and metate. On the left a child is partially visible si...
Photograph

Basket Making

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Description: View of old man making baskets and an old woman sewing outside of a log cabin. Other handmade wooden items appear throughout the image and tools hang on th...
Photograph

Spinning Wool

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Description: View of woman sitting with spinning wheel, bulk wool and a yarn winder by a stone wall with a cooking fireplace in it. Plants grow on the ground nearby, th...
Photograph

Women and Spinning Wheel

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Description: View of two women with a spinning wheel standing in front of a small wooden building.

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