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| Date: | 1800 |
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| 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... |
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| Description: | Elderly woman using a spinning wheel to make yarn from wool. |
| Date: | 07 27 1953 |
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| Description: | A visitor to the Wisconsin State Fair is so curious about one entry in a display of rugs and textiles that she reaches through a protective barrier in orde... |
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| Description: | Aline W. Hazard (holding WHA microphone), interviewing women at a craft fair. |
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| Description: | Aline W. Hazard stands behind two seated women who are making crafts. |
| Date: | 05 13 1939 |
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| Description: | A hobby show with quilts hanging on the wall, as well as tables with other crafted goods in a room with a high ceiling. |
| Date: | 05 13 1939 |
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| Description: | A table spread with crafts at a hobby show with cards identifying the artist. The objects on display include two sets of bookends, one made by "Faye Gore" ... |
| 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: | A Native American woman weaving baskets outdoors. Three children are sitting nearby. Caption reads: "Indian Adepts, Glenn, Mich." |
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| Description: | Young girls in school uniforms enjoying an outdoor crafting class. |
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| Description: | Girls sitting at a picnic table enjoy an outdoor craft class at Camp Alobregate. A building with a stone chimney is in the background. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Paper House, featuring furniture and fireplace embellishments constructed out of rolls of newspaper. The walls and windows are also de... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Paper House, featuring a piano, a bench, a lamp and a chair constructed with rolls of paper. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | A Christmas tree stand made by Gustav Willms (c. 1854-1917), a cigarmaker, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is probably made of cigar boxes. Written on back:... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by the Orioles, a girls' club at Neighborhood House, with papercuts and an image of Li Hsiu Lan, a girl to whom club members cor... |
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| Description: | Group of girls sitting or standing around a table that is covered with paper and containers of paint, holding brushes and small objects they are painting. ... |
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| Description: | Young women practicing fine sewing and lace making at Wisconsin Home for the Feeble Minded. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A Russian birch bark container, including a top with a handle, and a painted floral design. The container was used to carry items from the market. |
| Date: | 12 1931 |
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| Description: | The Briggs School is decorated for Christmas with colored chalk drawings of the Nativity story on the blackboards. The section shown depicts the Three Magi... |
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