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| Date: | 11 16 1948 |
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| Description: | Naval Officers and Wives Club annual Christmas dinner dance featuring a Hawaiian Christmas theme, in the Crystal Ballroom of the Hotel Loraine. Mrs. Robert... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 02 1949 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin students Bob Steinhagen, Milwaukee, Connie Prentice, West Bend, and John Williams, La Crosse, making some of the elaborate decorati... |
| Date: | 11 22 1949 |
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| Description: | Mary Beach (left), social chairman; Mrs. George Kane, President; and Arabelle Murphy, chairman of the Christmas party making decorations for the annual for... |
| Date: | 04 03 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress and hat, probably June D. McLean, arranges flowers in a wicker basket while seated on a couch. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Fennimore High School sewing class poses in classroom. Mathilda Monteith was the instructor. |
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| Description: | Woman standing at sewing exhibit that includes dresses, children's clothes, aprons, and hats. Mathilda Monteith was the instructor of the sewing class. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Unidentified young woman holding a large candle near a display of candles next to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Library. Bikes are parked in... |
| 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: | Portrait of two Catholic Women's Club members with their hobbies to be displayed at the Club's first hobby show. On the left is Mrs. Kathleen Huels who rai... |
| 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. |
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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... |
| 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: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Group of young women, probably students, assembling wooden nail boxes and benches in a classroom. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Large group of men and women, probably teachers, tying rope near a school building. A woman is standing on the right side, identified as Mrs. Streeter, wit... |
| Date: | 08 1919 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 09 2002 |
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| Description: | Members of Nukewatch protesting at the Project Elf facility near Clam Lake. This protest was part of the organization's annual Hiroshima event, and the pro... |
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