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Lumber Camp Cook Shanty

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Description: Two men preparing a meal in a lumber camp shanty or bunkhouse.
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Kitchen Interior

Date: 1910
Description: Woman baking in a large kitchen with lean-to pantry and a wood-burning stove. The sconces or reflectors on the kerosene lamps intensified the light.
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Fisherman by River

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Description: Fisherman cooking on campfire at the edge of a river.
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Potawatomi Indians Cooking

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Description: Illustration of three Potawatomi Indians cooking.
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Sears Roebuck Fireless Cookers

Date: 1915
Description: Sears Roebuck catalog page of heating radiator, kettles, and pans.
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Fudge Party

Date: 1890
Description: College students at the University of Wisconsin having a fudge-making party around a small gas burner.
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Ojibwa Lodge

Date: 1906
Description: Ojibwa chief's lodge from Lac Courte Orielles Reservation set up at the 1906 Wisconsin State Fair. Note both reed and bark coverings on the lodge. A number...
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Woman Cutting Carrots

Date: 1920
Description: A young woman wearing an apron smiles as she slices a carrot into a pan.
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Parching Wild Rice

Date: 1907
Description: A Chippewa woman parching wild rice in Lac Vieux Desert. Lac Vieux Desert is a 4200 acre Michigan-Wisconsin boundary water in Vilas County.
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Hopi Women Cooking

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Description: Hopi women cooking.
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Cooking Demonstration at Women's Building

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Description: Cooking demonstration in the Women's Building at the Wisconsin State Fair, featuring a cheese appetizer.
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Mrs. Rennebohm Baking

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Description: Mary Fowler Rennebohm wearing an apron and sifting flour. Mrs. Rennebohm was the wife of Oscar Rennebohm, founder of the Rennebohm Drug Store chain and go...
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Cyanotype of Chippewa Indians

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Description: Cyanotype print of Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians near Bradley Junction, near Minocqua. A man wearing a suit and hat is standing in the background.
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Polperro House Kitchen

Date: 1940
Description: The kitchen in the restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, on Shake Rag Street. The house was temporarily covered with siding, but after restorati...
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Girl Preparing Hot Lunch

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Description: A young girl is preparing lunch in a pot on a small stove.
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Carson Gulley Christmas Card

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Description: Bea and Carson Gulley's Christmas card promoting their catering service. Text on the card reads: "A Blessed Christmas."
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Carson Gulley Preparing Chickens

Date: 11 25 1942
Description: Navy cooks and bakers assisting a demonstration by Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef.
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Three Men in Cook Shanty

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Description: Interior of cook shanty, with oil lamps hanging from the ceiling beams. The back wall is covered with newspapers. Three men stand behind wood benches and t...
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Ike Church at a Bar-B-Que

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Description: Ike Church at a CIO bar-b-que, cutting a pork shank.
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Highlander Kitchen Scene

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Description: A group of women working on hard boiled eggs in the Highlander kitchen. Betty Shipherd on right, Antioch student on left.

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