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Sewing Class at School for Indian Children

Date: 1895
Description: Sewing room at Lac du Flambeau U.S. Government School for Indian children. Female students posed at their sewing machines and work tables.
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Females Sewing at the Pima Agency

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Description: Women and girls sewing in a room at the Pima Agency, near Phoenix.
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Spring Valley Cooking School

Date: 02 12 1915
Description: Room filled with women, some with children, attending a Farmers' Institute Cooking School class at Spring Valley, Wisconsin. There is a table with ingredie...
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YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association)

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Description: Students sitting and standing at workstations set at long tables during a cooking class at the Young Women's Christian Association. A teacher's desk in the...
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Students Learn to Bake

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Description: These young men and boys are students in a baking class at a vocational school.
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Thanksgiving Feast

Date: 11 26 1930
Description: Students and teacher seated at a long table loaded with food and drinks for a Thanksgiving meal. There are music and English lessons behind them on the cha...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Play School

Date: 1946
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with three girls standing and sitting at a table with a play telephone, a kitchen beater, and play dishe...
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Northern Wisconsin Center Home Economics Class

Date: 1930
Description: Slightly elevated view of six women wearing aprons learning domestic skills in a kitchen classroom. Two women on the left stand at a sink washing dishes, t...
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Fine Sewing and Lace Making

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Description: Young women practicing fine sewing and lace making at Wisconsin Home for the Feeble Minded.
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Women at Table

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Description: Five women are sitting at a table set for perhaps a Valentine's Day party. The setting was likely a Home Economics project for the women at the Northern Wi...
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The School Children at Dinner

Date: 1932
Description: Students at the New Fane school pose in the classroom during lunch time. Some of the children hold cookies or sandwiches. On several of the desks there are...
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Home Economics Class

Date: 1910
Description: Home economics students (all women) dressed in aprons, dresses, and hats, stand in rows at counters tending pots at the Winnebago County School of Agricult...

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