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| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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: | 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... |
| 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: | 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: | 12 20 1963 |
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| Description: | Four residents of the Barron County Nursing Home in Cumberland are making crafts around a table. A caption on the photograph reads: "This group in occupati... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A Ho-Chunk woman, Mable Davis (maiden name) Lowe is sitting and weaving a basket. Behind her is a dwelling (chipoteke). Several finished woven baskets are ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of nine children sitting around a table working on craft projects. A woman is sitting with them at the top of the table. |
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