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Writing a Note

Date: 1950
Description: A woman writes a note at a small writing desk in her kitchen.
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

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.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show

Date: 04 07 1949
Description: Mary C. Donahoe inspecting an antique gas range next to new model at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show in the East High School gymnasium.
Photograph

Oil Stove Accident Prevention

Date: 08 1927
Description: A woman wearing an apron pouring oil into a hot stove at the International Harvester Hinsdale experimental farm, illustrating a dangerous scenario for Inte...
Photograph

Home Canning

Date: 1915
Description: A woman wearing a dress and bonnet is using a wire potato masher to remove a jar of peaches from a vat of boiling water. Several jars of canned goods are s...
Photograph

Woman with Home Canning Equipment

Date: 1915
Description: Mrs. Buckley, wearing a dress, apron, and bonnet, is standing next to a table where equipment used for the home canning of agricultural produce is displaye...
Print

Happy Way Malt Syrup

Date: 1929
Description: Label from a can of Happy Way brand dark, hop flavored malt syrup. Picture on the label shows a woman wearing an apron and holding a can of the malt syrup ...
Document

Dayton Pump Products Co. Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Dayton Pump Products Company of Belgium, Wisconsin, distributor of Dayton Water Systems, with six vignettes of water systems in use: wate...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 750-757

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Description: Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell
Photograph

Wisconsin State Journal Cook Book Recipe Contest

Date: 07 27 1959
Description: Miss Loreen Jacobson, home economics director of the Wisconsin Power and Light Company, performs a test of a casserole entered in the annual Wisconsin S...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Journal Cook Book Recipe Contest

Date: 07 27 1959
Description: Mrs. Alice Ferguson, home service director of Madison Gas and Electric Company, tests a pie entered in the Wisconsin State Journal's annual Cook Book Recip...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Journal Cook Book Recipe Contest

Date: 09 15 1959
Description: Mrs. Robert E. Benedict of Baraboo holding her top grand prize winning cornmeal rolls at the Wisconsin State Journal's annual Cook Book Recipe Conte...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Journal Cook Book Recipe Contest

Date: 08 15 1959
Description: Mrs. Mary Pratt of Madison was the second grand prize winner in the Wisconsin State Journal's annual Cook Book Recipe Contest. Her recipe is for Fes...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Fair Exhibit

Date: 1926
Description: Demonstration booth in the Women's Building at the Wisconsin State Fair, showing electrical kitchen equipment.
Print

Fireside Pancake House Menu

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Description: Foldout menu from Fireside Pancake House, with a woman in a cap, long dress, and apron, stirring batter in a bowl, standing by a hearth with a pot suspende...

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