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| Date: | 1943 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 03 1958 |
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| Description: | When Mr. and Mrs. John (Rosie) Capaci of 1025 South Park Street observed their 42nd wedding anniversary, they were presented with a gift from their daughte... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype. Waist-up portrait of Elsey Ormsbee Bristol. Elsey was born May 27, 1783; married August 1, 1804 at Warwick, Massachusetts to Cha... |
| Date: | 05 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Madison television programs are hosted by Madison women and cover topics like cooking, arts, fashion and crafts. Luella Mortenson, women's director for bot... |
| Date: | 05 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Madison television programs are hosted by Madison women and cover topics like cooking, arts, fashion and crafts. Fern Fowler demonstrates a plant made of t... |
| Date: | 04 03 1959 |
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| Description: | An authentic Scandinavian smorgasbord will be the key attraction at Madison's first Folk Festival and Fair sponsored and held at the YWCA, 122 State Street... |
| Date: | 10 08 1959 |
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| Description: | Mary Paulick sitting on the floor while working on a large braided rug. |
| Date: | 10 12 1959 |
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| Description: | Kate Schultz is shown with a sport coat she made for her husband from fabric that she wove. She also hooked the rug at her feet, upholstered the chair she ... |
| Date: | 11 23 1959 |
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| Description: | Busy with decorations for the annual Christmas dance are members of the Interns and Residents Wives club of the University of Wisconsin hospitals. Left to ... |
| Date: | 11 02 1959 |
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| Description: | Woodcraft articles by Frank F. France will be among the many items sold at the sixth annual Homecrafters Fair at Scanlan Hall in the Madison Vocational and... |
| Date: | 03 08 1960 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 13 1960 |
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| Description: | Four women converse at a display and sale of handicraft work made by disabled persons at the University League brunch. Left to right are: Mrs. William Scot... |
| Date: | 04 18 1961 |
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| Description: | The annual dinner-dance of the Who's New Club will be held at the Welch's Embers. Committee members who are making maypole decorations include, from left t... |
| Date: | 05 1899 |
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| Description: | William and Johanna Krueger are sitting alongside a house near a shed. William is sitting on a bench weaving a willow basket, and has a pipe in his mouth. ... |
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| Description: | Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying two photographs and two captions with extensive details of the camp's war efforts. Several campers in each photo... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Tille Faulkman, standing, and Sarah Krueger, are sitting behind a spinning wheel and a yarn winder in the open doorway of a barn. Both women are wearing tr... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Tille Faulkman standing in a barn with a spinning wheel and two yarn winders. She is dressed in traditional Pomeranian attire. A handmade basket filled wit... |
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| Description: | Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album displaying scenes of Joy Camps camp craft activities during Beaver Point trip. Includes fires and lashings, campers ea... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of one woman using a loom and another woman preparing fibers for the loom to create siding for housing. This image was taken or purchased by C... |
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