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| Date: | 01 06 1933 |
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| Description: | Fried chicken "basket" lunch (basket was a 2-pound loaf of bread hollowed out and toasted into which the chicken pieces are placed and then delivered) on a... |
| Date: | 12 07 1932 |
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| Description: | Seven women from the Social Service Department of the Woman's Club sewing for the Red Cross in the lounge of the Woman's Club, 240 W. Gilman Street. |
| Date: | 12 08 1932 |
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| Description: | Large group of women sewing for the Red Cross at St. John's Lutheran Church, 322 East Washington Avenue. Shows a woman sitting behind a sewing machine on t... |
| Date: | 12 08 1932 |
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| Description: | Large group of women sewing for the Red Cross in the home of James and Mary McManamy, 2005 Jefferson. |
| Date: | 11 16 1932 |
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| Description: | University League benefit bridge tea hostesses around the tea table in the dining room at the University of Wisconsin Pres. Glenn Frank's home, 130 N. Pros... |
| 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: | 10 31 1932 |
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| Description: | Children's birthday party. Taken for Mrs. Louis McGann. Shows children's room decor, small table with five children sitting around it. |
| Date: | 09 02 1932 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig, 17 S. Pinckney Street, kitchenware department. |
| Date: | 08 25 1932 |
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| Description: | Dining room, Simon Hotel, 107-113 S. Butler Street, with tables set for dinner. A large plaque on the wall reads: "Eat More Cheese. Eat all You Want. No Ex... |
| Date: | 03 10 1932 |
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| Description: | Display window for A & P Special Automatic Egg Cooker (Hankscraft) "available for 98 cents with purchase of 1 dozen Sunnybrook eggs." |
| Date: | 03 20 1932 |
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| Description: | Newman Club St. Patrick's Day banquet in St. Paul's University Catholic Chapel banquet room. |
| Date: | 02 13 1932 |
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| Description: | Green County 4-H Club girl, Helen Haldeman of Monroe, posing in the Madison Gas and Electric Co. demonstration kitchen, while she competes in the state che... |
| Date: | 02 13 1932 |
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| Description: | Wood County 4-H girl, Olive Charboneau of Vesper, mixing pie dough in the Madison Gas and Electric Co. demonstration kitchen. This was during the competiti... |
| Date: | 02 13 1932 |
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| Description: | Dane county 4-H Club girl, Agatha Dermosky, of Sun Prairie, rolls pie dough in the Madison Gas and Electric Co. demonstration kitchen during competition in... |
| Date: | 12 16 1931 |
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| Description: | Junior Division (of the University League ?) tea party at the home of Abigail Rundell 2227 Van Hise Avenue. Left to right: Mrs. Russell H. Fitzgibbon, Lila... |
| Date: | 12 08 1931 |
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| Description: | Emerson school girl scouts do clothing maintenance such as ironing, sewing, and shoe polishing around a table. |
| Date: | 11 18 1931 |
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| Description: | Marian Dolan, of the Maple Knoll 4-H club north of Sun Prairie, 1931 National 4-H champion, making a cake. Shows a Hershey's Cocoa can. |
| Date: | 11 18 1931 |
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| Description: | Marian Dolan, of the Maple Knoll 4-H club north of Sun Prairie, 1931 National 4-H champion, sewing. |
| Date: | 11 22 1931 |
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| Description: | Aunt Mary putting on a "Corn-top Bread" lunch in the Orpheum Theatre N.U.A. room. Seated left to right: Dave Genaro, Lizzy Wilson, Tom Harris, Annie Hart, ... |
| Date: | 11 14 1931 |
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| Description: | Table set for tea party, benefitting the scholarship fund of the University League, at Mrs. Emma Ogg's home, 1715 Kendall Avenue. L-R: Anne Birge, Emma Ogg... |
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