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Frankfurters on the Grill

Date: 08 22 1963
Description: "Picnicking in Mitchell Park provided a pleasant afternoon recently for these senior citizens who participated in the Milwaukee County Park Commission's pr...
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Farm Wife Brings Lunch to Her Husband in the Field

Date: 1970
Description: Ingrid Bengtson bringing lunch to the field to help her husband, Norman, get the planting done faster. They are having lunch on top of the McCormick Intern...
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Tailgating at Milwaukee County Stadium

Date: 12 02 1962
Description: A group of Madison residents, l-r. Mrs. Arthur Freeman, JoAnn Brandt, Scott Freeman, and Mrs. Mary Engler set up their own "refreshment headquarters" on th...
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Business and Professional Women Scholarship Party

Date: 02 02 1955
Description: Estah Cummings and Evelyn Milliff, members of the Ways and Means Committee of the Madison Business and Professional Women's Club, in the kitchen preparing ...
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Home Economics Club Meeting

Date: 10 16 1944
Description: Three women at a meeting of the Madison Home Economics Club with the theme "Good Nutrition, A Wartime Challenge." Mrs. Irving (Clara) Johnson, president of...
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Madison Home Economics Club Meeting

Date: 10 16 1944
Description: Two women at a meeting of the Madison Home Economics Club with the theme "Good Nutrition, A Wartime Challenge." Nellie Kedzie Jones, guest of honor and pas...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Centennial Art Exhibit

Date: 02 14 1949
Description: Shown around the punch bowl at the University of Wisconsin Centennial Art Exhibit at the Memorial Union are, left to right, Mrs. E.B. (Rosa) Fred, wife of ...
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Anita McCormick Blaine, John L. McCaffrey, Fowler McCormick

Date: 1947
Description: From left to right, J.L. McCaffrey, President of International Harvester; Anita McCormick Blaine; Fowler McCormick, Chairman of the Board for International...
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Shower for Fire Victim

Date: 09 26
Description: Three women, employees of Oscar Mayer Company, hand gifts to co-worker Irene Loveland, who lost her home and personal possessions in a fire. Left to right...
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Female Shopper with Smucker's Strawberry Preserves

Date: 1970
Description: A publicity photograph of a bespectacled young woman, in a 1960s mod-style dress, examining a jar of Smucker's strawberry preserves in an aisle of a grocer...
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Memorial Union Smorgasbord

Date: 04 03 1951
Description: Lillian Steinmann (left) and Gladys Ratcliffe arranging some of the 40 colorful fruit molds at the Smorgasbord held at the University of Wisconsin Memorial...
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Woman Straining Liquid

Date: 1920
Description: A woman standing under a rooftop near a doorway pouring liquid through what appears to be a cheesecloth strainer and into a clay pot.
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Picnic with the Nofsingers

Date: 06 01 1929
Description: Bernard Arms (standing), uncle of Lewis Arms, shares a picnic with his neighbors Mr. and Mrs. (Betsy) Nofsinger.
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Lutefisk Supper

Date: 12
Description: Several women are served lutefisk at a lutefisk supper at the Dane County Home. There are plates of lefse and dinner rolls on the table.
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Pressure Kettle

Date: 11 1919
Description: A woman wearing a full-length apron using a pressure kettle on a stove top, probably for home canning.
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Buckhorn Food and Spirits — Interior

Date: 08 15 1997
Description: "We dine at the Buckhorn Restaurant. A half order of Lake Perch is only $5.00." From left to right; Ralph Widmer, Ralph "Buddy" Ruecker, Rudy Heinecke, Joh...
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Marshland Cafe — Interior

Date: 11 21 1997
Description: "Ruth Emery waits on us at the Marshland Cafe. Perch dinners for senior citizens are $7.15." From left to right; Shirley Widmer, Rudy Heinecke, Ralph Widme...
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Cunningham's Feed Mill — Interior

Date: 12 12 1997
Description: "Matt Straveler is our waiter at Cunningham's Feed Mill. They only serve Cod which is $5.50 per plate."
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Walded Supper Club — Interior

Date: 12 19 1997
Description: "Dawn Stott is our waitress at Walden Supper Club, Perch are $8.95." From left to right; Shirley Widmer, Ralph Widmer, Dawn Stott, Ralph "Buddy" Ruecker, a...
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Little Red Inn — Interior

Date: 01 02 1998
Description: "Vicki, waits on our group at the Little Red Inn in St. Lawrence." Pictured (Clockwise around the table); Ralph Widmer, Shirley Widmer, Parker Hren, John B...

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