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International Harvester Refrigerator Advertising Poster

Date: 1951
Description: Color advertising poster for International Harvester refrigerators showing several refrigerators stocked with food, color chips, and the disembodied heads ...
Photograph

Woman Demonstrating New IH Refrigerator

Date: 1950
Description: Advertising photograph of a woman wearing an apron over a dress holding the door of an International Harvester refrigerator open.
Photograph

Woman with International Harvester Designer Refrigerator

Date: 1949
Description: Advertising photograph of a woman putting a fabric covering on an International Harvester refrigerator. The refrigerator was designed to accomodate custom ...
Photograph

Business and Professional Women Scholarship Party

Date: 02 02 1955
Description: Estah Cummings and Evelyn Milliff, members of the Ways and Means Committee of the Madison Business and Professional Women's Club, in the kitchen preparing ...
Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne Catalog Cover

Date: 1896
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Osborne agricultural machinery showing a woman and two young girls mixing ingredients for a recipe from an Osborne cata...
Photograph

Girl Scouts Cookie Sale

Date: 04 06 1948
Description: Four Girl Scouts enjoy a snack after delivering Girl Scout cookies, Nancy Reis (Highlands-Mendota Beach School), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Reis, Virg...
Poster

Add to Your Ration - By Home Canning!

Date: 1943
Description: Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 5, "Home Canning." The poster features a woman in a checkered apron pouring something from a cooking pan into a jar. ...
Photograph

Temple Beth El Kitchen

Date: 11 07 1950
Description: Three women working in the kitchen of the newly-completed Temple Beth El on Arbor Drive. Three chairmen of the upcoming bazaar are, left to right: Mrs. Har...
Photograph

U.W. School of Home Economics West Wing Interiors

Date: 05 20 1953
Description: Interior view of stainless steel research kitchen at the new University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Home Economics west wing.
Photograph

Judkins Family Baking

Date: 1913
Description: Leonore Judkins, later Mrs. Forest Middleton, center, prepares baked goods with her mother, far left, and sisters, Juanita, Bonnie, and Blanch. Bread and r...
Photograph

Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Association Benefit Ball Raises Money for Scholarships

Date: 01 25 1954
Description: Many cocktail parties preceded the Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Association Benefit Ball. Elizabeth O'Brien and Faye Mosigin, both of whom are Delta Zeta a...
Photograph

League of Women Voters House Tour

Date: 09 21 1954
Description: Virginia Dymond and Frances Hurst sitting in the home of Virginia and Russell Dymond at 2805 Ridge Road, one of the houses on the League of Women Voters' b...
Photograph

Easter Seal Boy

Date: 03 14 1955
Description: The family of David Lindl, the 1956 "Easter Seal Boy", eating breakfast. They include, from left: father Frank C. Lindl; Dennis, age 17 months; mother Marg...
Photograph

Monona Grove High School Student Council Kitchen Tour

Date: 04 03 1957
Description: View of the kitchen in the Roland and Jeanette Paul home at 707 Moygara Road. Jeanette is standing at an island that houses a stainless steel sink and dish...
Photograph

Monona Grove High School Student Council Kitchen Tour

Date: 04 03 1957
Description: View of an electrically-operated grill in the kitchen of the Vern Hamel home at 5803 Winnequah Road. The grill slides out like a drawer and can be placed o...
Photograph

Monona Grove High School Student Council Kitchen Tour

Date: 04 03 1957
Description: View of the kitchen in the Ruland Goff home at 5703 Midmoor Road. A sloping ceiling created a feeling of spaciousness and a skylight effect is created by w...
Photograph

Monona Grove High School Student Council Kitchen Tour

Date: 04 03 1957
Description: Mrs. Harvey (Bonita) Hubanks sitting next to a fireplace in the family room adjacent to the kitchen in their home at 4206 Jerome Street in Madison. The kit...
Photograph

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...
Print

The New 1950 "Femineered" International Harvester Refrigerators

Date: 02 1950
Description: Advertising copy reads: "They're femineered! The new International Harvester 1950 refrigerators. Women dreamed them... home economists planned them." The i...
Photograph

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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