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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.
Photograph

Modern Kitchen

Date: 10 14 1959
Description: Lois Dick, 106 Richland Lane, shows the kitchen which she and her husband Robert planned to suit their family needs and to accommodate their favorite style...
Photograph

Cabins at Bungalow Village — Highway 12

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Description: Three women are sitting on chairs in front of the office and kitchen building at Bungalow Village.
Magazine or Periodical

Home Economics Department Kitchen

Date: 02 1948
Description: View of the new home economics department kitchen. Zelma Purchase is at the range and Priscilla Cobb is standing at the sink.
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...
Print

Goff's Restaurant Menu

Date: 01 16 1958
Description: Dinner and children's menu from Goff's Restaurant, with two illustrations of a woman in an apron filling a coffee cup: in the one accompanying 1893, when t...
Photograph

St. Thomas Aquinas Church Fish Fry

Date: 11 1960
Description: A man and two women fry fish for the St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church family-style fish fry.
Photograph

Women Cleaning a Canada Goose

Date: 10 22 1984
Description: Two women are working in a kitchen plucking feathers from a goose. Caption reads: Dorothy Pautsch (left) and Jean Kuenzi cleaned a Canada goose at Louis Pa...
Photograph

Women Make Year's Supply of Lefsa

Date: 11 19 1954
Description: Three sisters gather at one of their homes to carry on a 30 year Christmas time tradition of making a year's supply of lefsa. Mrs. Roy J. Nelson, 145 Marqu...
Photograph

Women Make Year's Supply of Lefsa

Date: 11 19 1954
Description: Mrs. Roy J. Nelson, 145 Marquette Street, is shown using a "floyve" stick to turn the lefsa while it bakes. She and her two sisters gathered at one of thei...
Photograph

Women Make Year's Supply of Lefsa

Date: 11 19 1954
Description:  Mrs. John Berge, 25 N. 6th Street, begins the process of rolling out the flat, round cake known as "aevna" until it is one foot in diameter. She and her t...
Photograph

Women Make Year's Supply of Lefsa

Date: 11 19 1954
Description: Three daughters of Mrs. John G. Peterson gathered at one of their homes every year to carry on a 30 year, Christmas time, tradition of baking lefsa, a Norw...
Photograph

Woman in a Striped Dress

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Description: Portrait of a woman wearing a striped dress posing sitting in a chair near a wood stove. Stove piping is above her in the background, and dishes are on tab...
Photograph

Woman in a Kitchen

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Description: A woman is posing sitting on a chair, with her arms and feet on the back of a wooden chair in front of her. On the right is a table. The room has wallpaper...
Photograph

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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