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Pastoral Needlework Scene

Date: 1800
Description: Needlework scene on silk worked in colored silk thread using running and crewel stitches. The hands and faces of the figures are watercolor on paper. Sce...
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Interior of Block House

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Description: Interior view of the block house with a steep exposed ceiling. A man is siting in a chair, and United States flags adorn the columns and a framed image on ...
Photograph

Christmas Customs

Date: 12 14 1953
Description: Maybelle Otterson demonstrates a Christmas custom as she hangs a front door decoration on her home at 209 North Blackhawk Avenue in Shorewood.
Photograph

Camp Fire Girls at Neighborhood House

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Description: Group of girls sitting or standing around a table that is covered with paper and containers of paint, holding brushes and small objects they are painting. ...
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Paradise Regained

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Description: Stereograph of a man and woman relaxing, reclining in the garden of a house. The man is ducking his head under the foliage of a plant behind him. A vase-sh...

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