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Table Settings
August 1954
Table decorations created by Matha Hart in a formal summer style.
Kitchen Wares Display
Table at a Farmers' Institute event with display of numbered kitchen tools and machinery.
Table Settings
August 3, 1954
Cecelia Maas created a table setting with a wild fowl theme. Walter and Cecelia love to hunt and to serve wild game when they entertain.
Cooking School Instructors
Misses Armstrong, Stout, and Norton, and Mister Adams posed on steps before the door of a building hosting a Farmers' Institute Cooking School.
Greenwood Lumber Camp Dining Room
1900
Interior view of the dining room at the Greenwood lumber camp. The long tables are set with dishes and food, and there is a wood stove between the tables.
Spring Valley Cooking School
February 12, 1915
Room filled with women, some with children, attending a Farmers' Institute Cooking School class at Spring Valley, Wisconsin. There is a table with ingredients and utensils in the foreground.
