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Sewing Class at School for Indian Children

Date: 1895
Description: Sewing room at Lac du Flambeau U.S. Government School for Indian children. Female students posed at their sewing machines and work tables.
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Weaving Room at the State School for the Blind

Date: 1893
Description: Several looms in the instructional weaving facility at the State School for the Blind.
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University of Wisconsin Women's Association

Date: 03 26 1947
Description: University of Wisconsin Women's Self Government style show committee members Dorothy Proudfoot, Wilmette, Illinois, chairman of decorations, Margaret Pesut...
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Nursary School Children

Date: 04 29 1947
Description: Five children making May Baskets in Marjorie Deakman's nursery school, 7 Bayside Drive, Lakewood. L to R: George Gordon, 1901 Jefferson Street; Ann Taylor,...
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Three Nursery School Children

Date: 04 29 1947
Description: Three girls holding their lavender, green and pink May Baskets that they made in Marjorie Deakman's nursery school, 7 Bayside Drive, Lakewood. L to R: Barb...
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Nursery School Children

Date: 04 28 1947
Description: Six children with the May Baskets that they have made in Marjorie Deakman's nursery school, 7 Bayside Drive, Lakewood, Maple Bluff. L to R: Paul Glass, 810...
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Weaving Class

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Description: Girls' weaving class at the University of Wisconsin.
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4-H Club Week

Date: 02 26 1949
Description: Gene Ryberg, member of Silver Badgers 4-H Club, using a saw while working on a handicraft project.
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Classroom at Christmastime

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view, with desks in the foreground, of an elementary classroom decorated with a Christmas tree near the blackboard, and other holiday decorations,...
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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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Fennimore Sewing Class

Date: 1913
Description: Fennimore High School sewing class poses in classroom. Mathilda Monteith was the instructor.
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Young Women Woodworking in Class Room

Date: 1920
Description: Group of young women, probably students, assembling wooden nail boxes and benches in a classroom.
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Group of People Tying Rope

Date: 08 1919
Description: Three women tying rope. One woman is sitting on a wooden plank suspended on both ends by rope held by two men standing on top of workbenches. The men and w...
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Learning Knot Tying

Date: 1918
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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Berry School

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Description: View of a woman weaving at a loom in the weaving room of the Berry School, which opened in 1902. Blankets are hanging near the ceiling.
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Madison Playground Crafts Program

Date: 08 11 1954
Description: Garland Smith, art supervisor in summer crafts for the Madison board of education summer playground program, stands in front of a display of items made by ...
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Badger School Egg Tree

Date: 03 27 1956
Description: First graders of the Badger School decorated eggs and hung them on a silver tree for disabled children in the orthopedic ward of University hospitals. The ...
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West High School Valentine Dance

Date: 02 05 1957
Description: Gail Cooper (left) and Margaret Sy (center) chuckle at the mouse image made by Ann Koch (right) for the Valentine Dance at West High School.
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School Exhibit

Date: 1925
Description: An autumn exhibit and fair has been set up in the Centerville School. A post supports streamers which extend to the walls, and examples of needlework and c...
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Homecrafters of Dane County 6th Annual Spring Fair

Date: 03 08 1960
Description: Marian Bedner (right) of Sun Prairie, who has arthritis, decorates eggs and makes egg trees for sale at the Homecrafters of Dane County 6th Annual Spring F...

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