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Singer Advertising Card - Bosnian Woman

Date: 1892
Description: Chromolithograph card of a woman in "native" Bosnian costume, posing next to a Singer sewing machine. Part of a "Costumes of All Nations," set created as a...
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Magda Herzberger and Kindergarten Class

Date: 1932
Description: Magda Moses Herzberger (front row, far right) and her kindergarten class dressed in Romanian folk dress in Cluj, Romania. They are wearing caps or scarves ...
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Party Fixins' Booth

Date: 11 11 1954
Description: Mrs. Irvine (Marg) Elliott of 4601 Wallace Avenue, co-chairman of the "Party Fixins' booth at the Lake Edge Congregational Church bazaar, wears the cap and...
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Madison's First Folk Festival and Fair

Date: 04 03 1959
Description: An authentic Scandinavian smorgasbord will be the key attraction at Madison's first Folk Festival and Fair sponsored and held at the YWCA, 122 State Street...
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Two Women with a Spinning Wheel

Date: 1910
Description: Tille Faulkman, standing, and Sarah Krueger, are sitting behind a spinning wheel and a yarn winder in the open doorway of a barn. Both women are wearing tr...
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Tille Faulkman with Spinning Wheel

Date: 1910
Description: Tille Faulkman standing in a barn with a spinning wheel and two yarn winders. She is dressed in traditional Pomeranian attire. A handmade basket filled wit...

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