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Senator Joseph McCarthy Eating Breakfast

Date: 11 06 1946
Description: Joseph R. McCarthy in the home of friends Urban and Margery Van Susteren of Little Chute, on the morning after his election to the U.S. Senate. Van Sustere...
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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.
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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.
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Mrs. Rennebohm Baking

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Description: Mary Fowler Rennebohm wearing an apron and sifting flour. Mrs. Rennebohm was the wife of Oscar Rennebohm, founder of the Rennebohm Drug Store chain and go...
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Polperro House Kitchen

Date: 1940
Description: The kitchen in the restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, on Shake Rag Street. The house was temporarily covered with siding, but after restorati...
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Douglas County Historical Museum

Date: 1940
Description: A spinning wheel, chair, and other kitchen objects in the corner of a room. Caption reads: "Corner of Pioneer Kitchen, Douglas County Historical Museum, Su...
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Girl Preparing Hot Lunch

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Description: A young girl is preparing lunch in a pot on a small stove.
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Carson Gulley Preparing Chickens

Date: 11 25 1942
Description: Navy cooks and bakers assisting a demonstration by Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef.
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CIO Kitchen Duty

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Description: CIO students doing kitchen duty at Highlander Folk School. Myles Horton helping.
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Highlander Kitchen Scene

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Description: A group of women working on hard boiled eggs in the Highlander kitchen. Betty Shipherd on right, Antioch student on left.
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Rosa Goldberg Katz, Bernard, and Arthur Katz Dining in Their Oshkosh Home

Date: 1954
Description: Rosa Goldberg Katz, Bernard, and Arthur Katz dining in their home.
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University Practice Kitchen

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Description: Interior view of a University of Wisconsin Home Economics Department practice kitchen demonstrating orderly shelf usage.
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Kitchen Interior

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Description: Interior view of a kitchen showing sink, stove, counter, and shelves. Apparently to demonstrate effective kitchen organization.
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Woman with Cook-Box

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Description: Woman in a long dress standing in kitchen with cook-box, a device to facilitate consistent results in cooking. There is a sideboard on the right.
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Strikers' Soup Kitchen

Date: 11 16 1955
Description: Striking employees, all members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, of the Kind & Knox Company, enjoy a break from their picket line responsibil...
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Man in Winnebago County Asylum Kitchen

Date: 1930
Description: A man wearing an apron stands in a large kitchen located at the Winnebago County Asylum. Above him are pots and pans hanging from the ceiling. There is a l...
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Howland House Kitchen Fireplace

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Description: View of kitchen fireplace in Howland House. The Howland House was built in 1667 and still stands. It is also known as the Jabez Howland House and is the on...
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Antiquarian House Kitchen

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Description: View of antiquarian house kitchen. Kitchen interior features a rocking chair, rug, large brick fireplace with cooking tools, pots and a bed warmer. There i...
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Jethro Coffin Home Kitchen

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Description: View of kitchen in the Jethro Coffin home. Jethro Coffin was a blacksmith and the grandson of one of the island's first white settlers, Tristam Coffin. Bui...
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Jethro Coffin Home Fireplace

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Description: View of Jethro Coffin home fireplace in kitchen. Jethro Coffin was a blacksmith and the grandson of one of the island's first white settlers, Tristam Coffi...

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