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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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Ellen Proxmire Cooking

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Description: Ellen Proxmire and an unidentified woman shown in a kitchen cooking.
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Wiedmeyer Home — Interior

Date: 2004
Description: Florence and Harold Wiedmeyer have been married for 65 years and lived here for 62 years. They raised 12 children.
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Woman with Pressure Cooker

Date: 1923
Description: Mrs. Waggoner opening a pressure cooker on a stove in a farmhouse, possibly as part of a home canning process.
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Receiving Crops for Community Kitchen

Date: 09 1928
Description: Man carrying baskets of field crops in to the receiving room of a community kitchen. A woman wearing an apron is standing near the door.
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Woman in Farmhouse Kitchen

Date: 06 1923
Description: Miss Zearing using a grinder to make bread crumbs inside a farmhouse kitchen.
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Baker's Dozen Bread Club

Date: 07 1923
Description: Miss Marilla Zearling demonstrating a bread-making technique to members of the Baker's Dozen Bread Club.
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Woman and Young Girl Canning Beans

Date: 1926
Description: Woman and young girl working in a kitchen canning beans. The girl is standing at the sink running a faucet while the woman is seated at a table using a bea...
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Woman Demonstrating Canning Process

Date: 07 23 1926
Description: Woman in kitchen demonstrating the canning process. Original caption reads, "pail and wire rack for cold pack canning." The photo was taken at Harvester Fa...
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Woman Demonstrating Canning

Date: 07 1926
Description: Woman in a kitchen dipping freshly canned corn into pot. Original caption reads, "canning corn. Putting cans in pressure kettle for cooking." Taken at Harv...
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Woman Cutting Green Beans

Date: 1926
Description: Woman in a kitchen using a Burpee bean cutter to slice green beans before canning. The photograph was taken at Harvester Farm.
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Woman and Man Canning Beans

Date: 07 1926
Description: A woman and a man in a kitchen canning beans. The woman is scooping beans from a large pot with a ladle into cans, while the man uses a tabletop hand crank...
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Woman Pouring Syrup Over Peaches

Date: 07 1926
Description: Woman preserving peaches in a kitchen at "Harvester Farm." She is pouring hot syrup from a pot over a spoon into glass jars filled with the fruit.
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Margaret Monier Canning

Date: 06 1923
Description: Margaret Monier using a pressure cooker while canning in the home of Miss Marilla Zearing. Cans of produce are cooling on wire racks on the counter and in ...
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Woman Using Fruit Press

Date: 06 1923
Description: A woman using a Dilver (fruit press) to juice fruit into a metal bowl on a tabletop.
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Woman Using Pressure Kettle

Date: 06 1923
Description: Miss Larson using a pressure kettle to cook on a wood-burning stove in a farmhouse kitchen.
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Mrs. Guener Washing Dishes

Date: 10 1923
Description: Mrs. Guener washing dishes while sitting on a stool attached to a sink in J.O. Waggoner's home.
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Woman Drying Dishes

Date: 1916
Description: A woman wearing an apron is standing near a wheeled butler's tray while drying dishes in a kitchen. A sink, table, chair and utensils are behind her.
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Woman Moving Wood Box

Date: 1923
Description: A woman moving a box full of firewood from the corner of the kitchen on the E.A. Bancroft farm. A woodstove is on the right.
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Woman Moving Wood Box

Date: 06 1923
Description: A woman moving a box of firewood from the corner of the kitchen on the farm of E.A. Bancroft. A woodburning stove is the right.

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