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Martini Glasses

Date: 09 1955
Description: Two full Martini glasses with olives are sitting on a kitchen counter.
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Chef at Capital Hotel

Date: 12 14 1953
Description: A chef working in a large kitchen. He is wearing a white chef's coat, tall hat and crisply pressed apron, and is standing next to an industrial-sized stove...
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Rennebohm Annual Christmas Party

Date: 12 28 1953
Description: Cooks preparing food for the Rennebohm Drug Store annual Christmas party in the kitchen of the Catholic Community Center. Left to right are: Ella Claus, Ka...
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Activities of Firemen at the Central Fire Station

Date: 01 20 1954
Description: Harold Hansen (left) and Fred Manthe making chili for the firemen's dinner. Hansen is standing next to the stove stirring a deep pot with one hand, and is ...
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Madison Vocational School Cooking School

Date: 01 25 1954
Description: Instructor E.L. Heiser looking on as students Jean Burik, Bob Knoelke, and Delwin Henriksen are preparing a salad in the cooking school at Madison Vocation...
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Madison Vocational School Cooking School

Date: 01 25 1954
Description: Student Dudley Smith peeling onions in the cooking school at the Madison Vocational School. He is leaning away from his hands and squinting his eyes, and i...
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Madison Vocational School Cooking School

Date: 01 25 1954
Description: Student Warren Olsen flipping over a roast in the cooking school at the Madison Vocational School.
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Madison Vocational School Cooking School

Date: 01 25 1954
Description: Student Jim Pollock serving meatloaf at the school cafeteria in the Madison Vocational School.
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Madison Vocational School Cooking School

Date: 01 25 1954
Description: Student Harold Loskot peeling potatoes in the cooking school at the Madison Vocational School. Dressed in a white apron and chef's shirt, he is standing at...
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Delta Tau Delta's Christmas Party

Date: 12 1954
Description: Fraternity member, James Slone, smiling and holding a tray of hot beverages while his fraternity's housemother, Mrs. Dorothy Lambert, is leaning her arm an...
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Troia's Steak House

Date: 12 31 1954
Description: Interior view of Troia's Steak House located at 661 State street. The chef is standing behind a grilling station.
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Kitchen Fire

Date: 05 03 1957
Description: A fire chief is surveying the damage from a kitchen fire at 906 East Mifflin Street in Madison, while the fire fighters are sweeping up with brooms.
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"Rhapsody of Recipes" Cooking School

Date: 05 21 1957
Description: Ruth Hogan, a home economist with the National Livestock and Meat Board prepares a dish during a demonstration at the three-day "Rhapsody of Recipes" Cooki...
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Coloring Easter eggs at their kitchen table are Sherry Svee, age 8, with her mother, Melba Svee, and father Kenneth Svee who is executive director of the M...
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Christmas is Sharing

Date: 12 01 1957
Description: One of the dozens of Madison baby-sitters who give part of their earnings to the Empty Stocking Club is 13-year-old Julie Reynoldson, daughter of Mrs. and ...
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Pie Recipe from Girl Scout Cookies

Date: 03 06 1958
Description: Two Madison Girl Scouts try out a pie recipe that has a crumb crust made with Girl Scout cookies. Elizabeth Davis (left) and Mary Beth Gehner are shown at ...
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University of Wisconsin Eagle Heights Apartments for Married Graduate Students

Date: 03 25 1958
Description: Mrs. Robert T. Dixon and daughters Eleanor (5 1/2) and Cindy (3) enjoying a tea party in their U.W. Eagle Heights apartment. Mr. Dixon, a high school teach...
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Madison Altrusa Club Annual Country Fair

Date: 04 25 1958
Description: Constance Elvehjem will sell some of her famous baked beans made from her grandmother's recipe at the Madison Altrusa club's annual country fair at the Spr...
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Wolman Family Home

Date: 05 08 1958
Description: New home, located at 4121 Chippewa Drive, designed by owners Martin and Ann Wolman to meet the needs of their large family of five children. Shown are daug...
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Wisconsin State Journal Cookbook Recipe Contest

Date: 08 14 1958
Description: Agnes Tomlinson, Middleton, cuts a strawberry pie. She plans to enter the cookbook recipe contest for the Wisconsin State Journal.

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