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| Description: | The K. Doxstad family is posed in their yard around a table covered with heavy books. A baby carriage is on the left and an older woman with her knitting i... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | The Ole Wettlesen family poses in the yard in front of a picket fence with women knitting. Two standing men appear to be examining an unfolded map. The fra... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Family around table in yard. Four women, three men, and four children. The woman at far left is knitting, and on the far right is a dog. In the background ... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | A large family is posed in the front yard around a table set with a white cloth and glassware, before a two-story bracket style house with a hip roof. The ... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elderly woman sitting in a rocking chair knitting in front of a window. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Ada Bass sitting in a rocking chair while crocheting. Sitting across from her is a woman identified as Llora, who is reading. There is a replica of a cat p... |
| Date: | 11 02 1948 |
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| Description: | Members of the Temple Beth El Sisterhood prepare for the second annual bazaar. Left to right: Mrs. Sidney Schwartz, gift committee; Mrs. Sidney Rosenfeld, ... |
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| Description: | Four women sit in or near a hammock and attend to their embroidery while a young boy sits at their feet. |
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| Description: | A group of women and girls and one man are sitting outside on benches and chairs sewing clothes and talking. On the right, a woman has a baby stroller besi... |
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| Description: | Two women pose for an outdoor photograph at the Jonas' campsite at Merrill Springs. One woman sits on a stool with her needlework while another kneels behi... |
| Date: | 11 28 1951 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Edmund Hart, Miss Peggy Elvehjem, and Mrs. Harold Kubly serve as chairmen for the University of Wisconsin YWCA Christmas Bazaar to be held in the lobb... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Halle Steensland poses seated in a rocking chair in the beautifully decorated sitting room in her house at 315 North Carroll Street. She appears to be... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An elderly woman in headscarf, checked dress and sweater, sits outdoors knitting. Identified as Martha Schilling, wife of Adam Rebholz from Portage, Wiscon... |
| Date: | 03 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Frank J. Vaughn reads to 6-year-old Kenneth Lemmer, Jr. and 5-year-old Ann Lemmer while the children's grandmother, Kath B. Morrissey, works on an afg... |
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| Description: | An outdoor group portrait of a birthday party. A cake with many candles and a lace tablecloth sits on a table in front. Most of the party are dressed up. N... |
| Date: | 04 03 1957 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Harvey (Bonita) Hubanks sitting next to a fireplace in the family room adjacent to the kitchen in their home at 4206 Jerome Street in Madison. The kit... |
| 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: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Groups of children are sitting at tables for a Saturday morning sewing group at Neighborhood House, with a woman helping the children at each table. One bo... |
| Date: | 07 1903 |
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| Description: | Mary Krueger knitting in a rocking chair in the yard while her grandchildren are sitting on the ground beside her. Jennie Krueger is sitting to her right, ... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of unidentified family posing around two tables in a yard. Includes mother, father, and seven children. In the background is a large, three-sto... |
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