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| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Fennimore High School sewing class poses in classroom. Mathilda Monteith was the instructor. |
| Date: | 11 29 1950 |
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| Description: | Six members of the Dames Club, a group for wives of University of Wisconsin students who are from foreign countries, gather to do what appears to be craft ... |
| Date: | 01 23 1951 |
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| Description: | Two instructors at the Truax Field homecrafters' center and two members of the University League are pictured admiring some baked enamelware made by one of... |
| Date: | 02 20 1951 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Mary Cashel is sitting on a sofa with a crocheted bedspread she made. It will be displayed at the Madison Catholic Women's Club hobby show. |
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| Description: | A mother is cutting a pattern from display material on a table. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Katherine (Kate) Quinney, Richard Quinney's great aunt, crocheting while seated on the running board of a Ford Model T in the yard of her family's farm. |
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| Description: | View of three Pueblo Native American women. The woman on the left is kneeling and spinning wool, and a young girl in the center is sitting and combing wool... |
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| Description: | View of interior of Harlow House. Built in 1677, the building was originally the residence of William Harlow and it still stands and remains open for tours... |
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| Description: | An interior view of Major John Bradford house that was built in 1714 and is still standing. Major John Bradford was the grandson of pilgrim governor Willia... |
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| Description: | View of the lean-to kitchen in Hyland House, which was built in 1660. The room features a fireplace with two smokers, a table with several mortar and pestl... |
| Date: | 10 22 1951 |
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| Description: | On Girl Scout Sunday, Dane County scouts and their leaders begin the seven service days of Girl Scout week, celebrated nationally to honor Julliette Low, f... |
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| Description: | View of four women on a lawn wearing dresses and bonnets, posing with wool and flax spinning wheels. |
| 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 ... |
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| Description: | A group of campers sits on the porch of a cabin while making baskets at Camp Sherwood. Several others sit on a dock or wooden walkway leading from the cabi... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Woman sitting outdoors at a spinning wheel, turning a large pile of wool in the foreground into yarn. |
| Date: | 07 02 1953 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Fred T. Cruse displays seven examples of her heavily decorated handmade velvet Christmas stockings, which she sells nation-wide and which retail for $... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Forest Middleton and his future wife, Leonore Judkins, look over a piece of beadwork on a frame. |
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| Description: | Black and white postcard of an indoor scene with a loom, spinning wheel, skeiner, garments and two dolls seated in a chair at Little Norway. |
| Date: | 12 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Christmas holiday tea table centerpiece created by Emma (Mrs. F.M.) Distelhorst of 3630 Spring Trail. The display was sponsored by the West Side Garden Clu... |
| Date: | 12 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Decorative holiday tea table center piece created by Mrs. C.A. Sakrison of Middleton. The displays were sponsored by the West Side Garden Club and shown at... |
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