Date: | 1934 |
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Description: | A group of Fond du Lac women sews clothes for a Civil Works Administration project in 1934. The CWA was an emergency program that lasted from November 1933... |
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: | 1809 |
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Description: | Embroidered sampler of a map of the United States. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Group of fifteen women gathered around three tables behind a home, probably the DMC Club, an exclusive social and sewing society named for an imported bran... |
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: | 1877 |
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Description: | Punch paper "Home Sweet Home" sampler. |
Date: | 04 24 1820 |
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Description: | Embroidered sampler bearing the stitched signature, "El Fisher April 24 1820." Elizabeth Fisher was the half-sister of Jane Fisher Rolette Dousman. |
Date: | 07 17 1957 |
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Description: | A young woman helps a girl make toy dolls out of cloth. |
Date: | 04 17 1957 |
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Description: | A Girl Scout crocheting doilies at a senior citizens' care center with her "adoptive grandmother." |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | A Chippewa (Ojibwa) woman preparing splints for basket making. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, the fir... |
Date: | 1893 |
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Description: | Several looms in the instructional weaving facility at the State School for the Blind. |
Date: | 05 09 1949 |
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Description: | Manchester's "Braid Aid" rug braiding demonstration counter display. |
Date: | 12 16 1952 |
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Description: | Mrs. Marie Shrout, 1102 Grant Street, preparing Christmas tree decorations with her children, Jim, 13, Patrick, 3, Douglas, 4, Susan, 9, Michael, 7, and St... |
Date: | 11 21 1955 |
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Description: | Nativity creche (belonging to Mrs. Fred Chamberlin, 3475 West Belt Line?). |
Date: | 1941 |
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Description: | Side view of German grandmother using spinning wheel to spin yarn. |
Date: | 04 24 1945 |
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Description: | Portrait of Ella M. Pickford (Mrs. Henry W. Pickford), 201 South Mills Street. Mrs. Pickford, who is 88 years old, does her own housework and despite poor ... |
Date: | 06 27 1945 |
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Description: | Mrs. Charles C. (Alice) Long is shown with the flag she crocheted for her son, Lieutenant Commander H.W. Christensen, who is a surgeon, serving in the Paci... |
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: | 1923 |
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Description: | The original caption reads: "The basketry of the Karok does not differ from that of the Hupa and the Yurok. The process is always twining, and the usual ma... |
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