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Chef at Capital Hotel

Date: 12 14 1953
Description: A chef working in a large kitchen. He is wearing a white chef's coat, tall hat and crisply pressed apron, and is standing next to an industrial-sized stove...
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Activities of Firemen at the Central Fire Station

Date: 01 20 1954
Description: Harold Hansen (left) and Fred Manthe making chili for the firemen's dinner. Hansen is standing next to the stove stirring a deep pot with one hand, and is ...
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Madison Vocational School Cooking School

Date: 01 25 1954
Description: Instructor E.L. Heiser looking on as students Jean Burik, Bob Knoelke, and Delwin Henriksen are preparing a salad in the cooking school at Madison Vocation...
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You Can't Keep Veterinarian Down on Farm

Date: 05 19 1954
Description: Veterinarian Dr. R.H. Romaker sitting down for dinner at 11:30 a.m. with (left to right) his assistant Francis Anderson, wife Louise, and children Ross, Ba...
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New Pines Restaurant

Date: 07 28 1954
Description: Two African American cooks standing by a stone hearth in the kitchen at the New Pines restaurant located at 2413 Parmenter Street. One of the cooks might ...
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Troia's Steak House

Date: 12 31 1954
Description: Interior view of Troia's Steak House located at 661 State street. The chef is standing behind a grilling station.
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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 12 16 1958
Description: Jean (Bayles) Kirking instructs three of her children, Duane, Ann, and Bruce in the technique of stringing popcorn and cranberries and paper chains to deco...
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Meredeth Niemczyk, Crossing Guard

Date: 01 13 1959
Description: Meredeth Niemczyk checks the part in the hair of her 11-year-old son, Tommy, before leaving for her school crossing guard job at the corner of Jenifer and ...
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Meredeth Niemczyk, Crossing Guard

Date: 01 13 1959
Description: Crossing guard Meredeth Niemczyk prepares lunches for her two sons, Steven, 7, and Tommy, 11, (seated in the background, eating breakfast) before she leave...
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Mothers With Careers

Date: 02 02 1959
Description: Cherokee Junior High seventh grade teacher, Paula Suomi, at home in the kitchen with her three children, Eric, Lois, and Stephen.
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Meredeth Niemczyk, Crossing Guard

Date: 01 13 1959
Description: Crossing guard Meredeth Niemczyk is shown looking upon the pies and cookies that she bakes and freezes only on weekends because of her weekday interrupted ...
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CUNA Cafeteria Workers Preparing First Meal

Date: 01 30 1960
Description: Friday was moving day for the CUNA Mutual Insurance Society. Moving all that heavy equipment, of course, is enough to give anyone an appetite. So Harry Van...

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