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| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | A group of Fond du Lac women sews clothes for a Civil Works Administration project in 1934. The CWA was an emergency program that lasted from November 1933... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Sewing room at Lac du Flambeau U.S. Government School for Indian children. Female students posed at their sewing machines and work tables. |
| Date: | 07 17 1957 |
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| Description: | A young woman helps a girl make toy dolls out of cloth. |
| Date: | 04 17 1957 |
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| Description: | A Girl Scout crocheting doilies at a senior citizens' care center with her "adoptive grandmother." |
| Date: | 02 20 1951 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Mary Cashel is sitting on a sofa with a crocheted bedspread she made. It will be displayed at the Madison Catholic Women's Club hobby show. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Group of young women, probably students, assembling wooden nail boxes and benches in a classroom. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Large group of men and women, probably teachers, tying rope near a school building. A woman is standing on the right side, identified as Mrs. Streeter, wit... |
| Date: | 08 1919 |
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| Description: | Three women tying rope. One woman is sitting on a wooden plank suspended on both ends by rope held by two men standing on top of workbenches. The men and w... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of students learning to tie knots in pieces of twine in a classroom. A chalkboard, American flag, and several portraits are hanging on the wall in ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Woman sitting outdoors at a spinning wheel, turning a large pile of wool in the foreground into yarn. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Forest Middleton and his future wife, Leonore Judkins, look over a piece of beadwork on a frame. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Group of girls making baskets, as an older girl or woman demonstrates a technique. Neighborhood House sponsored many groups and activities, such as basketr... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with women painting vases for United Service Organizations (USO) use. Groups at the settlement house wor... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with girls sewing in a handicraft group. |
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| Description: | Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying two photographs and two captions with extensive details of the camp's war efforts. Several campers in each photo... |
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| Description: | Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album displaying scenes of Joy Camps camp craft activities during Beaver Point trip. Includes fires and lashings, campers ea... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A small group is gathered on the screened porch of the Ark cottage. Anna Holt Wheeler is standing in the doorway, looking at the camera and holding a handi... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A small group is gathered on the porch of the Ark cottage in the daytime. Looking at the camera, a young woman, possibly Rose or Agnes Wilson, is sitting i... |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Two women are standing and admiring quilts hanging on a clothesline at a show or fair at Villa Louis. |
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