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Mrs. Mutchler Making Soup

Date: 05 12 1933
Description: Mrs. Wilson Mutchler of Stoners' Prairie farm at 2533 Mutchler Road, south of Madison, cooking soup on a woodstove.
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Interior of Barbershop

Date: 
Description: Barber shop with customers and shaving mug rack. African American man is probably Frank Lyons.
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Forest and Hares

Date: 1900
Description: Forest Middleton rests on the kitchen floor with two Dutch hares. There is a woodburning stove and a "Detroit Jewel" gas stove in the background. A table...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 319-324

Date: 
Description: There used to be a quiet. It wasn't deafness, it was roses

But they don't make it any more
They think it was a toy
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...
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Kitchen in a Logging Camp

Date: 1890
Description: Interior view of a kitchen in a logging camp with light coming in from a window on the far right. Two men are posing standing, and another man is sitting i...
Photograph

Telephone Exchange in Laona

Date: 1920
Description: "This picture is of the first telephone exchange that I established in Laona. The girl standing is my youngest daughter. This exchange is still operated in...
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Phillip and Isabel La Follette

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Description: Phillip and Isabel Bacon La Follette sitting in comfortable chairs in their living room at home. A large dog, perhaps a Chow, is lying on the rug in front ...
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Harvest's End

Date: 1978
Description: A vegetable seller waiting with her produce behind an old stove.
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Unidentified People — Brittingham Project

Date: 1954
Description: A man is sitting on the arm of a chair holding a lighted candle in a glass bottle. A woman wearing a headscarf is sitting in the arm chair. A stove is in t...

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