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Making Dolls

Date: 07 17 1957
Description: A young woman helps a girl make toy dolls out of cloth.
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Sewing Group

Date: 05 31 1964
Description: A circle of women talk, sew and thread needles around a Singer sewing machine.
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Inkle Looms

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Description: Two girls seated on a bench outdoors and working inkle looms.
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Women With Hand-Crafted Dolls

Date: 08 15 1946
Description: Women from the Unitarian Church with dolls for the war-blighted children of Europe and Asia. In the foreground is Mrs. F.H. (Ruby) King, one of Madison's o...
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Doll Dresses

Date: 12 06 1947
Description: Wisconsin Dames club members sewing doll dresses for dolls to be sold at the Christmas bazaar. Proceeds to be used to purchase Christmas baskets for needy...
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Women in an ORT School Learn Dressmaking

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Description: Women learning the dressmaking trade at an ORT school in a displaced persons camp; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivo...
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4-H Club Week

Date: 02 26 1949
Description: Mary Henshue, age 10, has just become eligible for 4-H. She is shown sewing doll clothes. She is a member of the Silver Badgers 4-H Club. A dollhouse is on...
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Everetta and Sewing Machine

Date: 1894
Description: Everetta Bass stands in a room near chairs in front of a treadle sewing machine. A doll buggy is also visible. A tapestry or blanket hangs on the wall on t...
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Two Women Pose for an Outdoor Photograph

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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...
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Antique Dolls

Date: 01 15 1952
Description: Mrs. Roman (Doris) Hilgers posing with some of her collection of dolls for which she has made fashion clothing over the past five years.
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Dane County Junior Fair

Date: 07 26 1952
Description: Blue ribbon winners at the Dane County Junior Fair are Nancy Smith, left, Basco, and Julia Kirch, Mt. Horeb, wearing the dresses they made and modeled.
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Woman and Girls at Milliner Shop

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Description: View of a woman posing sitting on the porch of a wooden building and sewing a hat, probably a milliner in front of her shop. A small girl is sitting in a r...
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Osseo Cheerleaders Wearing Indian Headdresses

Date: 03 14 1957
Description: Four Osseo cheerleaders with the letter "O" sewed to their sweaters pose on one knee with pompoms covering their legs. They wear (Sioux) Native American he...
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"We Saw You" at the Middleton Fashion Show

Date: 04 26 1957
Description: Don Acker, a Middleton High School baseball player, is shown with student fashion models in their self-made clothes. They include, from left, Marilyn Mille...
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"We Saw You" at the Middleton Fashion Show

Date: 04 26 1957
Description: At a "We Saw You" fashion show, Miriam Hauri (left), Joan Faust, and Joanne Schoepp model pajamas they made. They are each holding a stuffed animal. The gi...
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Checking Dane County Fair Entries

Date: 07 15 1959
Description: Mrs. Alvin Derr (left), Marshall, and Mrs. Edner Norland, Belleville, check in 2,098 clothing entries at the Dane County Junior Fair.
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Dane County Junior Fair

Date: 07 15 1959
Description: The 1959 Dane County Junior Fair home economics building is the center for 1,000s of entries made by girls of Dane County in the clothing and food categori...
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099 - Campers Participating in Dramatization

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying two photographs; there is an empty space where a third photograph was once included. The top photograph shows a ...
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137 - Wartime Efforts at Joy Camps

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying two photographs and two captions with extensive details of the camp's war efforts. Several campers in each photo...
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Sewing Circle of Luther Memorial Church

Date: 02 09 1956
Description: Three women and a girl are sitting and chatting at a table while making toys for a Madison hospital. Shown as they sew and stuff cloth toys, are (left to r...

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