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Christmas Customs

Date: 12 14 1953
Description: Walter Maas of 4029 Council Crest making hand-made Christmas gifts for wife, Cecelia, and children, Twig and Robin.
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Decoupage Art

Date: 04 07 1954
Description: Close-up of Fern Fowler's hands as she creates a decoupage tray. This photograph depicts the final step of pasting the design onto the tray with a small br...
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Decoupage Art

Date: 04 07 1954
Description: Close-up of Fern Fowler's hands as she creates a decoupage tray. This is one of two images of decoupage process steps.
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Ifugao Woman

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Description: Portrait of an elderly Ifugao woman squatting on the ground using a drop spindle for spinning in the Philippines. She is holding something in her mouth.
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Woman Spinning

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Description: A woman uses a spinning wheel outdoors while a barefoot girl stands on a porch behind her. Published by Jos. Milner & Son.
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Farmer's Museum

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Description: View of a woman weaving with a loom as an exhibit at the Farmer's Museum, which opened in 1944. There is another loom behind her.
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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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Pi Beta Phi Alumnae Tea and Sale

Date: 11 02 1954
Description: Four alumnae of the Madison Pi Beta Phi sorority looking at a collection of Arrowcraft products handmade by a Settlement school at Gatlinburg, TN. The item...
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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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Wilbur La Bounty, Paralyzed Homecrafter Making Bird Houses

Date: 03 15 1955
Description: He is Wilbur La Bounty, paralyzed homecrafter, making bird houses. He is sitting before a work table with a jig saw and his completed 12 log cabin-style bi...
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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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Madison Art Guild

Date: 01 07 1957
Description: Madison Art Guild members repair picture frames in Doris Brobst's recreation room at 211 Lathrop Street. Standing: Jean Johnson. Sitting on left: Ellsworth...
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Madison Art Guild

Date: 01 07 1957
Description: Erdine Stamm is shown rosemalling a wooden plate at the Madison Art Guild workshop in the recreation room of the Brobst home, 211 Lathrop Street.
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Willow Basket

Date: 05 1899
Description: View of William Krueger sitting on a bench next to the house, weaving a willow basket and smoking a pipe. In the background is a pedal grinding/sharpening ...
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DMC Club

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Description: Group of fifteen women gathered around three tables behind home, probably the DMC Club, an exclusive social and sewing society named for an imported brand ...
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Basket Making at Neighborhood House

Date: 1950
Description: Group of girls making baskets, as an older girl or woman demonstrates a technique. Neighborhood House sponsored many groups and activities, such as basketr...
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Mitten-Knitter

Date: 12 13 1957
Description: Mary Gillin is sitting behind a table with a display of 21 pairs of mittens of various sizes with wrist stripes that she knitted to donate to The Wisconsin...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Preparing Vases - U.S.O.

Date: 1943
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with women painting vases for United Service Organizations (USO) use. Groups at the settlement house wor...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Girls Sewing

Date: 1946
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with girls sewing in a handicraft group.

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