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| Date: | 1800 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Members of the Junior Red Cross of Madison making Christmas cards, tray favors, Christmas tree ornaments, and recreation hall decorations for service units... |
| Date: | 02 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Three women looking at an exhibit at the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week, showing room furnishing revolving around rural paintings. Pictured lef... |
| Date: | 04 20 1950 |
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| Description: | Members of Nakoma Girl Scout Troop 107 displaying their needlework projects. Shown left to right are Katy Grimmer, 4018 Council Crest, holding the mittens ... |
| Date: | 07 02 1953 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Fred T. Cruse displays seven examples of her heavily decorated handmade velvet Christmas stockings, which she sells nation-wide and which retail for $... |
| Date: | 04 07 1954 |
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| Description: | Close-up of Fern Fowler's hands as she creates a decoupage tray. This photograph depicts the final step of pasting the design onto the tray with a small br... |
| Date: | 04 07 1954 |
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| Description: | Close-up of Fern Fowler's hands as she creates a decoupage tray. This is one of two images of decoupage process steps. |
| Date: | 01 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Madison Art Guild members repair picture frames in Doris Brobst's recreation room at 211 Lathrop Street. Standing: Jean Johnson. Sitting on left: Ellsworth... |
| Date: | 01 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Madison Art Guild informal lunch takes place in the recreation room of Doris Brobst's home at 211 Lathrop Street. Left to right: Janet Washa, Louise Lawton... |
| 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... |
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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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| Description: | Young women practicing fine sewing and lace making at Wisconsin Home for the Feeble Minded. |
| Date: | 04 28 1958 |
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| Description: | Portrait of John Eustice, a designer of china patterns, at work in his studio. A graduate of University of Wisconsin, and New York State College of Ceramic... |
| Date: | 04 28 1958 |
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| Description: | John Eustice poses with a display of his china patterns. A graduate of University of Wisconsin and New York State College of Ceramics, John specializes in ... |
| Date: | 10 12 1959 |
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| Description: | Kate Schultz is shown with a sport coat she made for her husband from fabric that she wove. She also hooked the rug at her feet, upholstered the chair she ... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Group of Ladies' Sewing Club women posing under a tapestry at Neighborhood House. |
| Date: | 08 22 1961 |
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| Description: | Two teen girls examining the contents of large rosemaled (painted decorations) wooden box. The original caption states: "Norwegian rosemaling on a American... |
| Date: | 08 04 1964 |
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| Description: | Elinor Schnore with her counted thread embroidery of a totem pole mounted in a frame. |
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