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University of Wisconsin Home Economics Class

Date: 10 28 1948
Description: University of Wisconsin home economics student Charlene Bishop, making pancakes in a laboratory.
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Wisconsin State Fair Exhibit

Date: 1926
Description: Demonstration booth in the Women's Building at the Wisconsin State Fair, showing electrical kitchen equipment.
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Wisconsin State Journal Cook Book Recipe Contest

Date: 07 27 1959
Description: Miss Loreen Jacobson, home economics director of the Wisconsin Power and Light Company, performs a test of a casserole entered in the annual Wisconsin S...
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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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Bernice Pomainville

Date: 05 20 1965
Description: A woman is ladling something from a bowl onto a platter. Caption reads: "MRS. HAROLD G. [Bernice] POMAINVILLE, Wisconsin Rapids, put the creme chantilly on...
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University of Wisconsin President's Official Residence

Date: 09 21 1958
Description: University of Wisconsin president Conrad A. Elvehjem's daughter, Peggy, a home economist with General Mills in Minneapolis, standing in the kitchen of Olin...
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University of Wisconsin Football Pregame Party

Date: 10 26 1956
Description: Fern Thompson stands in her kitchen while preparing food for a University of Wisconsin football pregame party. She will be serving a chicken casserole, rol...
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University of Wisconsin Football Pregame Party

Date: 10 26 1954
Description: Mary Huber standing in her kitchen while fixing a molded jello salad in preparation for a University of Wisconsin football pregame party. She will be servi...
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University of Wisconsin Football Pregame Party

Date: 10 26 1954
Description: Lucia Leach in her home prior to a University of Wisconsin pregame party. She will be serving baked ham, scalloped potatoes, a green salad, rye bread, and ...
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Spring Valley Cooking School

Date: 02 12 1915
Description: Room filled with women, some with children, attending a Farmers' Institute Cooking School class at Spring Valley, Wisconsin. There is a table with ingredie...
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Wisconsin State Journal Recipe Contest

Date: 10 13 1957
Description: Camille Mathias, the third grand prize winner in the Wisconsin State Journal's second annual recipe contest, preparing her recipe entry, Chicken Noodle Piq...
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Chef Carson Gulley

Date: 1945
Description: Chef Carson Gulley, University of Wisconsin-Madison residence hall chef, chopping vegetables.
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Wisconsin State Journal Cookbook Contest

Date: 08 18 1961
Description: Mrs. S.J. Chakelan is in her kitchen preparing a Beef Tenderloin with Bordelaise Sauce. The recipe won the third grand prize in the Wisconsin State Journal...
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Mrs. Wilbur (Helen) Renk

Date: 05 28 1964
Description: Mrs. Helen Renk, Rt. 2, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, is shown in her kitchen. Mrs. Renk is submitting a favorite recipe for possible "election" into the Wiscons...
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Wisconsin State Journal Recipe Contest

Date: 10 11 1957
Description: Mrs. Harry Flemming preparing a seafood and wild rice luncheon. She is the grand prize winner of the casserole category in the Wisconsin State Journal's se...
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Wisconsin State Journal Cook Book Recipe Contest

Date: 07 27 1959
Description: Mrs. Margaret Nelson, teacher-coordinator at the Madison Vocational and Adult School, looks over entries in the Wisconsin State Journal's annual cook book ...
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Wisconsin State Journal Cook Book Recipe Contest

Date: 07 27 1959
Description: Mrs. Alice Ferguson, home service director of Madison Gas and Electric Company, tests a pie entered in the Wisconsin State Journal's annual Cook Book Recip...
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Wisconsin State Journal Cook Book Recipe Contest

Date: 09 15 1959
Description: Mrs. Robert E. Benedict of Baraboo holding her top grand prize winning cornmeal rolls at the Wisconsin State Journal's annual Cook Book Recipe Conte...
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Wisconsin State Journal Cookbook Contest

Date: 08 22 1961
Description: Betty Anderson is serving her daughter Lori a piece of the "500 Cake" which won the Grand Prize in the Wisconsin State Journal Cookbook Contest.
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Wisconsin State Journal Cook Book Recipe Contest

Date: 07 27 1959
Description: Group portrait of three judges for the Wisconsin State Journal's annual Cook Book Recipe Contest. Left to right are Mrs. Alice Ferguson, home servic...

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