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Four Women Share a House

Date: 03 21 1955
Description: Joan McKerley peeling potatoes in the kitchen of a house she is sharing with three other young women at 2253 Rugby Row.
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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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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 ...
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Cooking Class Preparing a Turkey

Date: 11 19 1952
Description: Close-up of a students' hands at a Vocational School cooking class sewing up a turkey after stuffing it with dressing. Another person is standing in the ba...
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Bessie Hooker Grinding Poppy Seeds

Date: 06 28 1945
Description: With all Hillsboro striving to honor Vice-Admiral March A. Mitscher, who came for a visit with his mother, Bessie Hooker, a maid in the Mr. and Mrs. Lyle H...
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Louise Zieske

Date: 01 31 1949
Description: Louise Zieske in her kitchen demonstrating how to make her cheese-rice casserole, which was selected as best of 517 entries in the "Wisconsin State Journal...
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Recipe Contest Winner Lea Gunderson

Date: 02 16 1949
Description: "Wisconsin State Journal" recipe contest winner Lea Gunderson holds a platter of her pineapple covered upside-down ham loaf.
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Edith Trowbridge and Son Tom

Date: 03 14 1949
Description: Mrs. L.G. (Edith) Trowbridge, winner of the blue ribbon in the Wisconsin State Journal recipe contest, is slicing a loaf of her winning entry, cinna...
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Spring House Cleaning

Date: 04 01 1949
Description: Mrs. William B. (Rachel) Fisher, 733 Copeland Avenue, assembling the cleaning products she will use during spring house cleaning. A new bride, this is her ...
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National Home Demonstration Week

Date: 04 12 1949
Description: Young homemakers, Caroline Reierson, 615 Dennett Drive, and Arveda Kuhlmey, 713 Dennett Drive, experiment with a new culinary process for cooking meat. The...
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Family Service Agency

Date: 05 04 1949
Description: Mrs. Margaret Mentzner, a fulltime employee of the Family Service Agency, is shown caring and cooking for two small children whose mother is sick and absen...
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Wisconsin Civilian Defense Nurses Enrollment Day

Date: 02 20 1951
Description: Mrs. Myrtle Cadwell, a retired nurse, butters a piece of bread as two of her three children, Kristi and Carlton, look on. As a graduate nurse she could be ...
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Foster Parent Zelma Stevenson

Date: 03 27 1951
Description: Zelma Stevenson spoon-feeding Jane, a 19-month-old foster child residing at the Stevenson home at 718 West Main Street. Mrs. Stevenson is a member of the f...
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Efficient Dishwashing

Date: 01 21 1953
Description: Mrs. Harry Segerstrom, Cuba City, sitting while washing dishes at a sink, demonstrating efficient dish washing methods for people with limited physical abi...
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Ellsworth House

Date: 12 12 1953
Description: Barbara Schaeffer (left) of Chicago and Catherine LaBerge of Ladysmith cook their own meals at the Ellsworth House, a residence for UW coeds. The house was...
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Christmas Customs

Date: 12 14 1953
Description: Hannah Heegaard-Jensen demonstrates a Christmas tradition by frying ableskivers on Christmas Eve.
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University of Wisconsin Football Pregame Party

Date: 10 26 1956
Description: Fern Thompson stands in her kitchen while preparing food for a University of Wisconsin football pregame party. She will be serving a chicken casserole, rol...
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University of Wisconsin Football Pregame Party

Date: 10 26 1954
Description: Mary Huber standing in her kitchen while fixing a molded jello salad in preparation for a University of Wisconsin football pregame party. She will be servi...
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Lake View Lutheran Lutefisk Dinner

Date: 11 10 1954
Description: Six women, some wearing aprons, preparing cakes while standing around a high table. Cakes and a stand mixer are on the table top. They are at Lakeview Ame...
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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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