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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. ... |
| Date: | 01 31 1958 |
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| Description: | Mary Farley is shown with a collection of some of the hand-made aprons which will be on sale at the Fun-O-Rama, a philanthropic event sponsored by the Coop... |
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| Description: | Young women practicing fine sewing and lace making at Wisconsin Home for the Feeble Minded. |
| Date: | 01 06 1959 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Frederic E. Mohs (left), Mrs. Carl Dutton, Mrs. A.R. Curreri, Mrs. Alfred J. Stamm, and Mrs. Virgil E. Herrick prepare Norwegian dolls to decorate the... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 10 21 1959 |
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| Description: | Three members of the West Side Garden Club preparing for the annual "Holiday House" Christmas flower show by making holiday decorations using natural mater... |
| Date: | 10 21 1959 |
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| Description: | Oak leaves, berries, milkweed pods, and other natural materials are grouped together to make a decorative wall hanging to be used as decoration ideas at th... |
| Date: | 10 21 1959 |
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| Description: | Three medallions, made of gilded pineapple shells or pine cones, will be used as Christmas decoration ideas at the West Side Garden Club's annual "Holiday ... |
| Date: | 10 27 1959 |
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| Description: | Ardis Thvedt, assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin's agricultural journalism department, studies a design she'll use for making her Christmas... |
| Date: | 11 17 1959 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Betty Warber puts the finishing touches on a bonbon wreath which will be displayed at the Christmas workshop of the women of St. John's Lutheran Churc... |
| Date: | 11 1953 |
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| Description: | Robert Jamieson and Patricia Tallard, children in Mrs. V. B. Roberts' nursery school, color and cut out paper turkeys as part of a Thanksgiving project. |
| Date: | 09 20 1989 |
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| Description: | Melodie Albritton holds up an origami crane she folded at St. Nicholas School. |
| Date: | 10 1954 |
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| Description: | Old wood and pieces of inner tubing are painted and used to make animal decorations. This was a project of Mrs. Charles Watson and her family shown at the ... |
| Date: | 11 1954 |
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| Description: | A woman wears a necklace made by Erdine Stamm for the Art Guild holiday exhibit. It is made from a strip of velvet cording, two fishing corks, sequins, bea... |
| Date: | 09 20 1989 |
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| Description: | Janine Dagons resting her chin on a table with an origami peace crane sitting in front of her. |
| Date: | 2013 |
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| Description: | Lois Wason displaying her hand-painted saying about grandmothers, with flowers, on a board at Becker Plaza. She is wearing a light blue work shirt over a t... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored lantern slide of two girls in kimonos kneeling on a floor, bent over a low table working with paper. Behind them is a decorated folded room sc... |
| Date: | 09 15 1961 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Jerome Schwartzbaum (left) and Gertrude Kimbrough look at decorative hookings made by members of the handicrafts group of the Junior Division of the U... |
| Date: | 09 27 1961 |
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| Description: | Maxine Backer, Eleanor Pritchard and Mildred Zimdars admire a stuffed animal and an apron which were made by the Dane County Homecrafters, an organization ... |
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