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Girl Scout Week

Date: 10 20 1952
Description: Demonstrating their ability at homemaking, baking and testing cookies, are four members of the Girl Scout troop at Middleton High School who have just beco...
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Woman Baking

Date: 1920
Description: A woman wearing a uniform and cloth hat is siftting flour into a bowl in a kitchen. Her dress has buttoned-on cuffs on the sleeves. The table in front of h...
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Woman Baking Bread

Date: 1920
Description: A woman wearing a uniform and cloth hat is kneading bread dough on a board on a wooden table. Her dress has buttoned-on cuffs on the sleeves. A flour sifte...
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Kitchen Interior

Date: 1920
Description: View of a corner of a kitchen with an opened window above a stove top. The kitchen is equipped with cupboards that are lined with spices, containers, and o...
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Pressure Kettle

Date: 11 1919
Description: A woman wearing a full-length apron using a pressure kettle on a stove top, probably for home canning.
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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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U.W. School of Home Economics West Wing Interiors

Date: 05 20 1953
Description: Interior view of stainless steel research kitchen at the new University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Home Economics west wing.
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Farmhouse with Running Water

Date: 1915
Description: Miss Foy Martin filling a bucket with water from a sink faucet, while her mother is lighting a burner on the stove inside the kitchen of R. Martin.
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Electric Cord on Nail

Date: 07 1926
Description: A man wearing a bow tie is toasting a piece of bread on an electric griddle with its cord hanging on a nail on the wall at International Harvester's Hinsda...
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Child Reaching For Poison

Date: 07 17 1926
Description: A girl is standing on a chair in the kitchen at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm in order to reach a shelf where bottles of poison are ...
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Judkins Family Baking

Date: 1913
Description: Leonore Judkins, later Mrs. Forest Middleton, center, prepares baked goods with her mother, far left, and sisters, Juanita, Bonnie, and Blanch. Bread and r...
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Snack Time

Date: 1900
Description: Forest Middleton, second from right, and four other boys, enjoy apples and popcorn in the Middleton family kitchen. One boy is peeling an apple as another ...
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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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Community Canning Kitchen

Date: 09 1926
Description: Man searching through cans of food piled in a wooden basket on a shelf in the distributing room of a community canning kitchen.
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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 with Firewood

Date: 07 1923
Description: A woman moving a box of firewood inside a farmhouse. A teakettle is standing on a stove to the left.
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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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