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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: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Woman using a Necchi sewing machine. Advertisements are in the background. |
| Date: | 07 17 1957 |
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| Description: | A young woman helps a girl make toy dolls out of cloth. |
| Date: | 07 22 1936 |
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| Description: | Female workers sewing canvas side folds on binder aprons at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The McCormick Works was built by Cyrus McCormick in ... |
| Date: | 07 17 1926 |
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| Description: | Staged scene of a woman sewing with a young child attempting to help. This photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Depart... |
| Date: | 01 08 1956 |
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| Description: | Men sew as a joke at a party for a prospective bridegroom. Jack Bayliss, with bow tie, is facing the camera. |
| Date: | 05 31 1964 |
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| Description: | A circle of women talk, sew and thread needles around a Singer sewing machine. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Dressmaking instruction outdoors, with one woman serving as a model. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Dressmaking instructor conducting an outdoor dressmaking class. |
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| Description: | Two girls seated on a bench outdoors and working inkle looms. |
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| Description: | Alma(?), Wis. Studio portrait of group of women seamstresses and two young children. |
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| Description: | Women and girls sewing in a room at the Pima Agency, near Phoenix. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | An employee of the Chase Bag company, who was also a member of the Amagalamted Meatcutters and Butcherworkers of North America, stitches at a sewing machin... |
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| Description: | Two girls at Citizenship School learn to sew at Johns Island. |
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| Description: | Young girls at work in the Rochester Short Course sewing laboratory, with Nellie Kedzie Jones supervising their work. Many girls are doing handwork and som... |
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| Description: | The Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen International included individuals once represented by the Fur and Leather Workers Union. A union member is... |
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| Description: | Myles Horton visiting citizenship school sewing class for younger members; teacher, Bernice Robinson. "Modernage" sewing machine featured. |
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| Description: | Johns Island students discuss sewing and the first young citizenship group at Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | Bernice Williams working with a younger CIO member on a sewing machine at the South Carolina Citizenship group. |
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