Date: | 01 04 1955 |
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Description: | Lydia MacKenzie, Helen Burkhart, the instructor, and Lucille Harks participate in a class on textile handicrafts at the Madison Community Center. |
Date: | 03 22 1945 |
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Description: | Mrs. Eda Haugsland, 207 North Pinckney Street, sewing lapel decorations for the Dane County homework shops which employ persons with disabilities. |
Date: | 04 04 1949 |
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Description: | Mrs. Moses W. (Edna) Smith in the process of remodeling her fur cape at a fur remodeling class at the Madison Vocational School. |
Date: | 04 26 1953 |
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Description: | Mrs. Rena Gigous made 200 cancer dressings in January. The dressings are displayed at Baron's and Yost Kessnichs department stores. |
Date: | 02 11 1954 |
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Description: | Violette Wartzok demonstrates a procedure in the drapery-making class at the Madison Vocational and Adult School. |
Date: | 04 03 1954 |
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Description: | Frances Larson putting the final touches on a formal dress modeled by her daughter Laurie, age 14. Frances, labeled a "modiste" or one who makes fashionabl... |
Date: | 1946 |
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Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a woman standing over a table, pinning a sewing pattern piece to cloth. An ironing board and bookca... |
Date: | 1946 |
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Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a woman using a sewing machine to sew a large piece of cloth patterned with four-leaf clovers. Anot... |
Date: | 04 26 1957 |
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Description: | At a "We Saw You" fashion show, Miriam Hauri (left), Joan Faust, and Joanne Schoepp model pajamas they made. They are each holding a stuffed animal. The gi... |
Date: | 04 26 1957 |
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Description: | Home Economic students at Middleton High School model the Easter outfits they made. Left to right are: Ruth Ann Frisch, Moreen Gurfoot and Donna Maly. Donn... |
Date: | 02 09 1956 |
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Description: | Two women, one standing, and the other sitting by a sewing machine "are examining some of the men's shirts which have been converted into bed jackets for a... |
Date: | 02 09 1956 |
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Description: | Three women prepare "materials used in the making of cancer dressings." The women include Eleanor Britt, Florence Anderson, and Marcia Udelhofen. The orig... |
Date: | 02 09 1956 |
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Description: | Four women are sitting together behind a low table containing small bundles of cloth and a scissors while making slippers for the children staying at a Mad... |
Date: | 02 04 1954 |
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Description: | Members of the Methodist Hospital Service League during their monthly day of service sewing linens to be used in the hospital. Standing left to right are: ... |
Date: | 03 04 1958 |
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Description: | Red Cross Gay Ladies Mrs. H.C. Jackson (4014 Council Crest) holding a Butterick magazine, and Mrs. Walter Price (3825 Council Crest) (reflected in mirror)... |
Date: | 04 15 1958 |
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Description: | Mrs. Fred Kelly leads a group of women at Wesley Methodist Church, 203 Wisconsin Avenue (currently First United Methodist Church), who meet regularly to se... |
Date: | 05 13 1958 |
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Description: | Annie Barnes displays a wide lace collar (called a bertha) that was part of her wedding dress. She had handmade it herself in six weeks using sewing needle... |
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