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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.
Historical Object

Map Sampler

Date: 1809
Description: Embroidered sampler of a map of the United States.
Historical Object

Pastoral Needlework Scene

Date: 1800
Description: Needlework scene on silk worked in colored silk thread using running and crewel stitches. The hands and faces of the figures are watercolor on paper. Sce...
Historical Object

Home Sweet Home Sampler

Date: 1877
Description: Punch paper "Home Sweet Home" sampler.
Historical Object

Elizabeth Fisher Sampler

Date: 04 24 1820
Description: Embroidered sampler bearing the stitched signature, "El Fisher April 24 1820." Elizabeth Fisher was the half-sister of Jane Fisher Rolette Dousman.
Print

Indian Utensils and Arms

Date: 1832
Description: Assorted Indian utensils and arms.
Photograph

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.
Postcard

Singer Advertising Card - Bosnian Woman

Date: 1892
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...
Photograph

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 ...
Photograph

Elsey Ormsbee Bristol

Date: 1840
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...
Photograph

Weaving Baskets and Spinning

Date: 05 1899
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. ...
Print

Chippewa Lodge

Date: 1884
Description: A completed Chippewa (Ojibwa) lodge and a lodge under construction. A Native American woman is stitching something on the completed lodge. Another Native A...

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