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Log Cabin

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Description: Log cabin in Northern Wisconsin.
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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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Fine Sewing and Lace Making

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Description: Young women practicing fine sewing and lace making at Wisconsin Home for the Feeble Minded.
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Popcorn Eaters

Date: 08 16 1941
Description: Eugene Barter, Jack Rosenthal, and Roland Small snack on popcorn on Children's Day at Wisconsin State Fair in 1941.
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University Practice Kitchen

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Description: Interior view of a University of Wisconsin Home Economics Department practice kitchen demonstrating orderly shelf usage.
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Historical Society Staff at Lunch on the Terrace

Date: 06 1955
Description: Members of the staff of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin at lunch on the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union Terrace. Foreground, with cigarett...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Home Economics

Date: 12 09 1947
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison students at a weiner roast in the recreation room of the University of Wisconsin Home Management house at 1430 Linden Drive...
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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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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 03 1948
Description: Elizabeth Davies (left), Baraboo, president of the Wisconsin Home Agents' association, talking to Mary Baldwin, wife of the Dean of the University of Wisco...
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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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Television

Date: 1950
Description: A young woman is displaying a television set.
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Dining room of the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys

Date: 1893
Description: Dining room at the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys.
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 03 1948
Description: Mrs. Edwin B. (Rosa) Fred, extreme left, wife of the university president, with a delegation of guests from Sun Prairie, at a tea at the Wisconsin executiv...
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Dining Room Walmar Lodge

Date: 1926
Description: The dining room at the lodge with a view of the Wisconsin River. The tables are set with white tablecloths, sugar bowls and salt and pepper shakers.
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Woman Reading Magazine

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Description: Woman reading "House Beautiful" magazine at Greenwood House.
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Family Bomb Shelter

Date: 1952
Description: A Wisconsin family inside their new bomb shelter.
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University of Wisconsin Football Pregame Party

Date: 10 26 1954
Description: Marilyn Sachtjen standing in her dining room while preparing the serving table for a University of Wisconsin football pregame party. She will be serving st...
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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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