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| 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: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Three girls serving cups of food and bread to children seated at their desks in a Cook County, District 137 classroom. The activity may have been part of t... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Female students in a home economics cooking class at the School of Agriculture in Olds, Alberta, Canada. |
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| Description: | Women and girls sewing in a room at the Pima Agency, near Phoenix. |
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| Description: | Laboratory work in a University of Wisconsin home economics class. |
| Date: | 02 12 1915 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Students sit at desks inside Sedan Prairie School while others stand in the back of the classroom to prepare lunch. The poster hanging on the back wall rea... |
| 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: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Female students working in a sewing class taught by Miss Catherine Mulvey. Original caption reads, "Miss Mulvey teaches the primary grades, but on Friday a... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Girls sitting around a long table while embroidering white cloth stretched through embroidery hoops. A woman, probably an instructor, is standing at left. ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A group of girls are wearing full-length aprons while using manual hand-mixers to beat the contents of bowls in a domestic economy (home economics) class. ... |
| Date: | 01 16 1967 |
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| Description: | Instructor Ida Mussa (left) assists student Victoria Vega in a power sewing class at Milwaukee Vocational School. Vega is sewing an apron on a Singer sewin... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| 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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| Description: | Young women practicing fine sewing and lace making at Wisconsin Home for the Feeble Minded. |
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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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| Description: | Elevated view of students in a home economics kitchen classroom at Roosevelt Junior High. |
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| Description: | Indoor group portrait of men and women posing sitting in a classroom and eating. Identified as a classroom in the high school building built in 1897. |
| Date: | 12 15 1964 |
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| Description: | Students from the 9th grade home economics class at Van Hise Junior High School model for their parents and classmates at a homemade style show at the scho... |
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