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Sausage Making

Date: 1944
Description: Four women operating sausage-making equipment at the Oscar Mayer Company during World War II.
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Weiner Processing

Date: 1943
Description: Female employees processing "Yellow Band" weiners at the Oscar Mayer Company during World War II.
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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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Vocational School Cooking Class Preparing a Turkey

Date: 11 19 1952
Description: Mrs. Margot Nelson, the teacher, is showing students Bertha Haack and Josephine Scheerer the technique of stuffing the body cavity of a turkey at a Vocatio...
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Professor Dorothy Hussemann and Student

Date: 01 14 1949
Description: Dorothy Hussemann, associate professor of home economics at the University of Wisconsin, (left) addressing her class on the technique of weighing meat. At ...
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National Food Store in Shorewood Shopping Center

Date: 12 27 1951
Description: A woman shops for meat at the National Food Store in the Shorewood Shopping Center, located at 3244 University Avenue in Shorewood Hills.
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Mendota Yacht Club Moonlight Regatta

Date: 07 07 1952
Description: Josie Mayer and Sue Adams roast wieners at the Mendota Yacht Club moonlight regatta and picnic supper on the roof of the Edgewater Hotel.
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Outdoor Cooking

Date: 06 09 1954
Description: Stanley V. Kubly preparing a steak on a grill while his family is looking on. Watching, from left to right, are Dan, 12; Trudi, 17; and Stan's wife, Evelyn...
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Outdoor Cooking

Date: 06 09 1954
Description: Doctor Lawrence V. Littig cooking a steak on a grill while his wife Sally and seven-year-old son Norman look on.
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Home Economics Day

Date: 03 20 1957
Description: Robert Kopp demonstrates meat cutting to Shirley Walberg (intern), Janice Hinze (assistant), and Ruth Dickie (chief dietician) during the hospital dietetic...
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Home Economics Day

Date: 03 20 1957
Description: University of Wisconsin home economics graduates on the research staff of Oscar Mayer and Co. Theresa DiPiazza, Lorraine Splies and Donna Otto do research ...
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Blackhawk Country Club Western Party

Date: 07 20 1957
Description: Douglas and Betty Oldenburg testing the barbecued meat at Blackhawk Country Club's Western Party.
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Zimmerman Twin's Birthday Party

Date: 09 25 1957
Description: The Zimmerman twins, Lettie and Lloyd, celebrated their 11th birthday with 54 friends and 12 teachers at Lincoln School. Left to right are: Miriam Melrose,...
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Rotary Club Honors Foreign Students

Date: 01 21 1959
Description: The Madison Rotary Club members honor 150 foreign students attending the University of Wisconsin at a fiesta at the University of Wisconsin Stock Pavilion....

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