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Holiday Canned Food Drive

Date: 11 22 1955
Description: Thomas Constable (left) and Walter Medenski (right), pose in front of canned food gathered by pupils at the Center Street school for the Salvation Army's T...
Poster

It's Better with Butter!

Date: 1941
Description: Color poster created by the National Dairy Council, Chicago, of butter and buttered food items such as pancakes, baked potatoes, and a steak, displayed on ...
Photograph

Albert Larson with Giant Squash

Date: 11 06 1931
Description: Albert A. Larson, Burke Township, displaying a 58 pound squash which he gave to the Madison Salvation Army. In the background is a sign on the side of a bu...
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West Side Garden Club Party

Date: 06 27 1944
Description: Two members of the West Side Garden Club wearing their hats created from vegetable material. From left: Mrs. Paul H. (Mary) Rehfeld, and Mrs. Thomas C. (Ve...
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West Side Garden Club Party

Date: 06 27 1944
Description: Two members of the West Side Garden Club wearing hats created from vegetable material. From left: Mrs. Henry A. Pochmann (Ruth) and Mrs. R.A. (Mary) Walker...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Boy Scouts

Date: 1912
Description: Photomontage of a group of five boy scouts around a cooking fire. The scouts watch as a giant potato, suspended over the fire, slowly roasts. They are wear...
Poster

Gay Dance

Date: 1972
Description: Poster promoting a gay dance to be held at the Memorial Union's Old Madison Room. Donation fee of .50 requested. Additional graffitti reads "No Union Scabs...
Poster

"Mr. Natural Talks 'Bout Lettuce"

Date: 02 24 1971
Description: Poster advocating the boycott of non-union lettuce at Gordon Commons on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Features a caricatured professor pointi...
Poster

"Do Your Bit--Save the Pit"

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a drawing of a woman scraping pits from fruit into a barrel.Text reads "Stop. Save Prune pits Plum pits Cherry pits Date seeds Olive pits ...
Photograph

Walkenhorst School Canning Club

Date: 1917
Description: A group of girls from the Canning Club of Walkenhorst School sitting and standing around a table outdoors to display their canned goods. A man wearing eyeg...
Photograph

G.M. Breakey Drugs and Groceries

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Description: Group of men, women, children and a dog posing standing in front of G.M. Breakey Drugs and Groceries. One man, perhaps the grocer, is standing in front of ...
Print

Watertown Chamber of Commerce Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Watertown Chamber of Commerce, with spot illustrations around the page of a dairy cow, potatoes, an ear of corn, a "mortgage lifter" hog,...
Photograph

Salvation Army Harvest Festival

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Description: Interior view, over the heads of an audience sitting in the foreground, of a room filled with vegetable produce. A man, and a woman holding a puppy, are st...
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The Girl on the Land Serves the Nation's Need

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster featuring four women in brown coats, pants, and hats walking along a field. One of the women is leading a team of two horses, two of the...
Photograph

Peeling Carrots

Date: 05 26 1958
Description: A boy in a Boy Scouts uniform for Milwaukee County Council 406 is sitting on a camp stool and peeling carrots. Caption reads: "Peeling carrots was unexciti...
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Display of Canned Vegetables

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Description: Canned vegetables are displayed on a table, with signs and illustrations hanging on the wall behind. One sign includes the text: "Canning Clubs 1913, South...
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The First Tomato Club at Work

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Description: Woman and young girls are standing at a table outdoors. They are cleaning tomatoes in a bowl, and cans of tomatoes are stacked nearby. Hand-tinted lantern ...
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Boy and Girl with Tomatoes

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Description: A boy and girl are posing with a box of tomatoes in a field. The sign behind them reads: "Cook Co. School — Field & Garden Club." Hand-tinted lantern slide...
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Girls in Field with Garden Produce

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Description: Two girls, each wearing white dresses, are posing outdoors in a garden. At their feet is a box of produce (tomatoes?), and they are leaning on a sign which...

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