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Snow Cones for the Kids

Date: 1950
Description: Children enjoy cold treats while being entertained, as nuns and an adult male look on.
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Girl Scouts Cookie Sale

Date: 04 06 1948
Description: Four Girl Scouts enjoy a snack after delivering Girl Scout cookies, Nancy Reis (Highlands-Mendota Beach School), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Reis, Virg...
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American Red Cross Blood Center

Date: 07 07 1950
Description: Volunteer worker Mrs. Charles (Elnora) Wirth stands at the counter in the American Red Cross Blood Center canteen, while nurses' aide Mrs. Gordon (Mabel) N...
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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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Pyramid Supper Club — Interior

Date: 11 19 1999
Description: "Our waitress at the Pyramid was Patricia 'George' Butch. She explained that 28 years ago, when she applied for the job, there was already an employee name...
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Port Hotel — Interior

Date: 02 08 2002
Description: "Deb, our waitress, posed with us at The Port Hotel, in Port Washington, WI." From left to right; John Bodden, Ralph "Buddy" Ruecker, Deb, Ralph Widmer, an...
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JD's Fieldhouse — Interior

Date: 02 14 2003
Description: "Breanna joined Shirley when we visited JD's Fieldhouse in Caledonia."
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Madison General Hospital Blood Drive

Date: 11 22 1953
Description: Myrna Brindley offers doughnuts to Madison General Hospital employees and staff blood donors Jane Watson and Richard Zellinski. The American Red Cross bloo...
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United Givers Fund Campaign

Date: 07 30 1954
Description: Cub Scouts roasting marshmallows with Aleen Plater, United Givers' Division head. Left to right: Mrs. Plater, Steve Plater, Joey MacDonald, Larry Frohmade...
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Dining Room

Date: 1929
Description: View down middle of the dining room at Berry's Coldwater Canyon Resort. Female servers stand along the walls near the tables.
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Senior Center Lunch

Date: 01 1979
Description: Lunch at a Senior Center.
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Sailor and Women with Ice Cream Cones

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Description: Three women in white dresses sit on a box nest to a young sailor sitting on a chair. They are all eating ice cream cones.
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Workers Arranging Trays of Food

Date: 1970
Description: Two male food service employees preparing trays of food laid out on a table for a Pan American World Airways Boeing 747 in-flight meal. A woman is standing...
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Chef Carson Gulley's Cooking Show

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Description: Chef Carson Gulley and Beatrice Gulley, Carson's wife, who appeared in this program with Gulley, on Madison television station WMTV. They are being fil...
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Cooked Patties

Date: 1953
Description: Two women tasting and comparing cooked patties at International Harvester's refrigeration works.
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First Wounded in Berlin

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Description: The first wounded soldiers in Berlin, at a coffee break outdoors.
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Pie Recipe from Girl Scout Cookies

Date: 03 06 1958
Description: Two Madison Girl Scouts try out a pie recipe that has a crumb crust made with Girl Scout cookies. Elizabeth Davis (left) and Mary Beth Gehner are shown at ...
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Klondike Flapjacks

Date: 05 1968
Description: A Boy Scout or Scout Leader, with "Madison Wis 101" on his shoulder patch, making pancakes in a skillet over an open fire. Beside the skillet is a coffee p...
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Business Men's Banquet

Date: 01 18 1912
Description: Handwritten on the back: "Business Men's Banquet, Seymour, Wisc., Thursday Eve, January 18-1912." View from stage of a large room filled with businessmen a...

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