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| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife Olgivanna, seated together reading in a bedroom at Taliesin. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring Green, Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 06 19 1907 |
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| Description: | Waitress tending a table in the dining room of the McCormick Works Club House. |
| Date: | 09 09 1943 |
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| Description: | Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef, proudly displaying his spice collection. |
| Date: | 11 23 1932 |
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| Description: | Blanche Taylor, dietician at Madison General Hospital, testing turkey in commercial oven in hospital kitchen. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A woman runs the milking operation at the G.L. Hamon dairy farm. |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | A waitress serves ham and eggs to Steven O. Kimbrough at an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant. Chuck Patch, Kimbrough's breakfast companion, has... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Esther, a Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant employee, holds an order of eggs and toast while keeping watch on potatoes and pancakes cooking on the grill. She... |
| Date: | 10 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Seventy-six-year old Henry L. Krehl, believed to the be city's oldest soda jerk, at the soda fountain of his brother August W. "Doc" Krehl's drug store, 40... |
| Date: | 06 28 1945 |
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| Description: | With all Hillsboro striving to honor Vice-Admiral March A. Mitscher, who came for a visit with his mother, Bessie Hooker, a maid in the Mr. and Mrs. Lyle H... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Chef Carson Gulley, University of Wisconsin-Madison residence hall chef, chopping vegetables. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of Alma and J. Robert Taylor. Alma is sitting in a chair holding a sock to be darned, while putting her hand over J. Robert's mouth. He i... |
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| Description: | Bloch indulging himself while dressed in humorous garb as a fraternity brother. Taken as an illustration for a fraternity article in Smiles magazine... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | The photographer, Ephraim Burt Trimpey, and his wife, Alice Kent Trimpey, seated at a table with a tea kettle on a stand, cups and saucers. Both wear vinta... |
| Date: | 01 22 1952 |
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| Description: | The junior division of the University of Wisconsin Service League for faculty wives has a number of interest groups including the sewing group, shown prepa... |
| Date: | 06 01 2001 |
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| Description: | "Our waitress at the Break-A-Way was Lu Ann. Although the fish were very good, we waited over an hour for our food, probably the slowest service we have ex... |
| Date: | 02 14 2003 |
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| Description: | "Breanna joined Shirley when we visited JD's Fieldhouse in Caledonia." |
| Date: | 04 07 2006 |
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| Description: | "Scoot Pastorius is shown with our Fish Fry's outside of J.O.'s, at 334 Main Street, Kewaskum. J.O.'s is primarily a take-out business." |
| Date: | 10 19 2007 |
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| Description: | "Elizabeth was our waitress at John's in Beaver Dam." |
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| Description: | A young woman and a very tall man stand together in front of the cookhouse wagon. She is holding a bottle of soda and offering him a hotdog; he has his arm... |
| Date: | 10 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Ethel Miller models a skirt made by her mother, Elizabeth (Mrs. Howard C.) Miller. The photograph was taken to accompany an article in the Wisconsin Sta... |
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