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Christmas Home Decorations

Date: 12 01 1954
Description: Mrs. F.D. Chamberlin displays samples of Christmas home decorations to be sold by the West Side Garden Club at their annual "Holiday House" sale.
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Christmas Season Activities

Date: 12 11 1954
Description: Jean Brickson and her daughters Ann, age 4, and Betty, age 2, make cut-out Christmas cookies.
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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...
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Four Women Share a House

Date: 03 21 1955
Description: Pat Farrell, with a broken right leg, polishes silver while confined to the house she shares with three other young women at 2253 Rugby Row.
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Men Who Cook

Date: 05 22 1956
Description: William H. Siemering stands in a kitchen grating cheese while wearing the traditional chef's apron, hat, and neckerchief. His specialty is "Eggs Wisconsin....
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Men Who Cook

Date: 05 22 1956
Description: Mortimer Levitan is shown with his collection of herbs, spices and salts. He is also a cookbook collector.
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Bringing Food to the Table

Date: 08 14 1956
Description: Jean Clausen sitting at a table in her kitchen while doing menu planning for her family. Part of photo spread for WSJ's Centennial Cookbook recipe contest.
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Bringing Food to the Table

Date: 08 14 1956
Description: Margaret Klipstein bakes many cookies for her family. Part of the photo spread for the Wisconsin State Journal Centennial Cookbook Recipe Contest.
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Bringing Food to the Table

Date: 08 14 1956
Description: Virginia Hall displays her angel food cake. Part of photo spread for the Wisconsin State Journal Centennial Cookbook Contest.
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Career Girls Entertain

Date: 02 15 1957
Description: Jean Ziegler cooking spaghetti for a dinner party at her apartment at 122 East Gilman Street, Apt. 205.
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Home Economics Day

Date: 03 20 1957
Description: Mary Crain (right), home economist, teacher, dietician, and manager of the West High School cafeteria, supervises two of her students, Linda Gaarder and Al...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Brides at Home

Date: 06 25 1957
Description: Lois Persen Berres standing in her kitchen while holding a coffee pot. The photograph is one of a series showing how newlywed women have made their new liv...
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Wisconsin State Journal Recipe Contest

Date: 10 11 1957
Description: Mrs. Harry Flemming preparing a seafood and wild rice luncheon. She is the grand prize winner of the casserole category in the Wisconsin State Journal's se...
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Wisconsin State Journal Recipe Contest

Date: 10 13 1957
Description: Camille Mathias, the third grand prize winner in the Wisconsin State Journal's second annual recipe contest, preparing her recipe entry, Chicken Noodle Piq...
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Healy Lane Coffee Hour

Date: 02 20 1958
Description: Monona Village homemakers share their weekday coffee hour at the home of Mrs. Randall Wind. Mrs. Wind holds her daughter Lori, age 2. Guests are Mrs. John ...
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Firemen Eating Dinner at Central Station

Date: 03 14 1958
Description: Elevated view of 13 firemen sitting at two tables, ready to eat their 11 am meal. The men are at Central Station at 18 South Webster Street. From left to ...

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