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Women Make Year's Supply of Lefsa

Date: 11 19 1954
Description:  Mrs. John Berge, 25 N. 6th Street, begins the process of rolling out the flat, round cake known as "aevna" until it is one foot in diameter. She and her t...
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Women Make Year's Supply of Lefsa

Date: 11 19 1954
Description: Three daughters of Mrs. John G. Peterson gathered at one of their homes every year to carry on a 30 year, Christmas time, tradition of baking lefsa, a Norw...
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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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United Church Women Breakfast

Date: 07 20 1955
Description: United Church Women board members attend a breakfast to honor their president, Mildred Campbell, who will be moving from Madison. At left, Irma Jenkins ass...
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Newlyweds Control Their Money

Date: 08 29 1961
Description: Newlywed Marilyn Mielke is shown in the kitchen preparing coffee in the new percolator that she and her husband, James, received as a wedding gift.
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Wisconsin State Journal Cookbook Contest

Date: 08 18 1961
Description: Mrs. S.J. Chakelan is in her kitchen preparing a Beef Tenderloin with Bordelaise Sauce. The recipe won the third grand prize in the Wisconsin State Journal...
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Wisconsin State Journal Cookbook Contest

Date: 08 22 1961
Description: Betty Anderson is serving her daughter Lori a piece of the "500 Cake" which won the Grand Prize in the Wisconsin State Journal Cookbook Contest.
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Oscar Mayer's Test Kitchens

Date: 02 26 1964
Description: Rose Kepler demonstrates how easy it is to cut a boneless ham developed in Oscar Mayer's test kitchens in Madison.
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Visiting Nurse Health Aide Program

Date: 05 12 1964
Description: Marie Ackley gives the kitchen of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lund a woman's touch while Mr. Ackley prepares dinner. Mrs. Ackley works as a health aide in a new Vi...
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Badger Village Star Gazer, Man with Homemade Telescope

Date: 1955
Description: Interior portrait of a man sitting at a kitchen table adjusting his homemade telescope. His wife is washing dishes behind him. Open shelves on the wall dis...
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Mrs. Wilbur (Helen) Renk

Date: 05 28 1964
Description: Mrs. Helen Renk, Rt. 2, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, is shown in her kitchen. Mrs. Renk is submitting a favorite recipe for possible "election" into the Wiscons...
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Karen Barry Washing Dishes

Date: 1982
Description: A woman, Karen Barry, is standing over a sink washing dishes. Photographs, paintings, and other small decorations hang on the wall.
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Busy Mother

Date: 09 30 1965
Description: Mrs. Rodney Gallagher, Rt. 2, Fish Hatchery Road, with a phone at her ear and a list at her side. She is sitting at a table with her five children, who are...
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Mrs. MacLean

Date: 10 07 1965
Description: Probably a portrait of Mrs. MacLean in her kitchen, taken for the "Wisconsin State Journal" cookbook section published Oct. 17, 1965.
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Tom & Jerry Batter Mixing

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Description: A man wearing a white t-shirt, white pants, and paper hat, is standing and holding a container in his left hand and operating a lever with his right hand f...
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Sid Sitting in Armchair

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Description: Sid sitting with his feet up in an armchair. He is wearing a hat and is holding a cigar in his right hand. There is a flower arrangement on a table on the ...
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Man Posing in Sid's Kitchen

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Description: A man is posing in profile in Sid's kitchen, carrying a bucket in his left hand and holding a towel over his right shoulder. On the wall in the background ...
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Ducks Unlimited Chefs

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Description: Two chefs for a Ducks Unlimited dinner standing and posing for a portrait. Men are sitting on a couch on the left under a large painting of ducks. People a...
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Ricardo Gonzalez

Date: 10 06 1979
Description: Ricardo Gonzalez, owner of the Cardinal Bar, working in his kitchen.
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John Cato, Shriner

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Description: Waist-up profile portrait of John Cato, a Shriner, seated in Sid Boyum's kitchen. Cato is wearing a top hat, Shriner medallions, and a collar.

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