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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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Governor's Mansion — Kitchen

Date: 1930
Description: The kitchen in the former Wisconsin Governor's Mansion on Gilman Street.
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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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Mrs. Glenn M. Wise, Wisconsin Secretary of State

Date: 08 1955
Description: Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John Wise), Wisconsin's first woman Secretary of State, posing in the kitchen cooking.
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Goodland Pickling Pears

Date: 1946
Description: Governor Walter Goodland pickling pears.
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Governor Walter and Madge Goodland

Date: 1946
Description: Governor Walter Goodland and his wife Madge in their kitchen pickling pears.
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Joe McCarthy Cooking

Date: 11 1946
Description: Recently-elected Senator Joseph R. McCarthy tasting a favorite recipe for pheasant during vacation.
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St. Charles Steel Kitchen Showroom

Date: 02 15 1950
Description: Mrs. Oscar (Mary) Rennebohm, wife of Wisconsin's governor, presided at the formal unveiling of the St. Charles steel unit kitchen, at 548 West Washington A...
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Carl Zeidler at Kitchen Table

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Description: Milwaukee mayoral candidate (and future mayor) Carl Zeidler in election photograph sitting at kitchen table with a woman and two young children. There is a...
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Commandos L Meeting with Radio

Date: 1963
Description: Meeting of the anti-Castro group Commandos L. Men are sitting and standing around a kitchen table with a radio receiver and transmitter. Tony Cuesta is sit...
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Commandos L Meeting with Radio

Date: 1963
Description: Meeting of the anti-Castro group Commandos L with radio transmitter and receiver. Four men are sitting around a kitchen table with a radio transmitter and ...
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Commandos L Making Explosives

Date: 1963
Description: Member of the anti-Castro group Commandos L manufacturing explosives in a kitchen. The man is pouring a liquid from a small pot into a bundle of metal tube...
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Commandos L Cooking Explosives

Date: 1963
Description: Member of the anti-Castro group Commandos L cooks ingredients for homemade explosive devices on a stove.
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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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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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Tommy Thompson and Darleen Tennessen

Date: 08 31 1999
Description: Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson folding a kringle. This image appeared in The Chippewa Herald on August 31, 1999. The caption read: "Darleen Tenne...
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Captured Russian Kitchen

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Description: Captured Russian field kitchen. German cooks posing for the camera and assessing their new kitchen.
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A Day 'With a County Home Agent"

Date: 04 24 1958
Description: Kathleen Russell, Iowa County home agent, at the home of Mrs. Ivan Johanning, Dodgeville. They are admiring the baked goods made by Mrs. Johanning as one o...
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A Day 'With a County Home Agent"

Date: 04 24 1958
Description: Kathleen Russell, Iowa County home agent, left, meeting with Mrs. Milton Leix, Cobb, president of the county homemakers organization.
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Governor's Mansion — Kitchen

Date: 1930
Description: View of the kitchen with a Reliant stove in the foreground along the right wall. A large sink is along a wall just beyond the stove. In the background on t...

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