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Coffee Shop

Date: 05 1960
Description: Two women serving coffee to customers at a coffee shop. Richland Center, Wisconsin.
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Truax Field Lunch Counter

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Description: The lunch counter at Truax Field, formerly Madison Municipal Airport. Two men are sitting at the counter, probably airport employees, and a waitress is po...
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Manchester's Store Fountain Room

Date: 09 11 1941
Description: Manchester's Department Store Fountain Room and coffee shop, with people at the counter and in booths.
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Young's Cafe

Date: 08 05 1947
Description: Slightly elevated view of the interior of Young's Cafe, located at 316 East Wilson Street. Joseph and Anna Young are standing in the Cafe surrounded by bou...
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Cup & Saucer Restaurant

Date: 1938
Description: View down counter of women and men sitting and drinking beer or soda. Two men stand on the back left. One woman is wearing a bathing cap, and other women a...
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Seventh St. Buffet

Date: 1939
Description: Elevated view pf W.T. Hening, dressed in an apron, leaning over a McCormick-Deering No. 4 beverage cooler at the Seventh Street Buffet. A bar or lunch coun...
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Summer Vacation Jobs for Youth

Date: 07 12 1949
Description: Dave Moran, a senior at West High School, has a summer job working at a local confectionery at the soda fountain and waiting on tables.
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Group of Employees in front of Cafe

Date: 1930
Description: View across street of a group of employees, all men, posing outside their cafe. The cafe advertises Kennedy Dairy Company brand ice cream, Coca-Cola produc...
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Part-Time Jobs for High School Students

Date: 12 01 1954
Description: Three Edgewood High School students work after school hours at Mickie's Dairy Bar on Monroe Street in Madison. From left are Frank Hebl, Frank's brother Bi...
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Newspaper Carriers' Breakfast

Date: 04 04 1956
Description: Madison Newspaper carrier boys were treated to a breakfast at Felly's Restaurant, 927 South Park Street. Seated at the lower table are Charles Peschel (bac...
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Charmed Land Dairies Delivery

Date: 02 1936
Description: A man from Charmed Land Dairies uses an International C-1 pickup truck to deliver bottles of milk to Rubenak's, a restaurant advertised with several large ...
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Truck Drivers at Rest Stop

Date: 1962
Description: A waitress serves five male truck drivers seated along a diner counter at a truck stop. The original caption reads: "Service to a 'T' awaits drivers in a h...
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Historyland's Logging Camp Cook Shanty Menu

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Description: Menu of daily meat specials under the heading "Come And Get It!" from the Logging Camp Cook Shanty restaurant at Historyland. On the left is a black and wh...
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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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Hotel Wisconsin Breakfast Menu

Date: 1938
Description: One-page card menu with red borders for club breakfasts at the Hotel Wisconsin. Features the silhouette of a waitress holding a tray with a steaming coffee...
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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...
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Gridiron Club Menu

Date: 12 09 1950
Description: Gridiron Club menu, mounted on board, with a cartoon by Jim (James Thomas) Berryman of club president Tom Stokes in suit and tie, chef's toque, pleated apr...
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Fox and Hounds Restaurant Dinner Menu

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Description: Front cover, bar menu, and trifold overleaf illustration from the Fox and Hounds Restaurant. On the cover is an illustration of the restaurant's wooden pla...
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Making Cornish Pasties in a Small Restaurant

Date: 1953
Description: Three women stand at a table while making Cornish pasties in the kitchen of a small restaurant.
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Mann's Restaurant

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Description: James R. Mann, and Eleanor Mann, proprietors of Mann's restaurant, standing in front of their storefront, with the clerk, Joe Haberlie, and an unknown woma...

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