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| Date: | 01 15 1952 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 01 22 1952 |
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| Description: | The junior division of the University of Wisconsin Service League for faculty wives has a number of interest groups including the sewing group, shown prepa... |
| Date: | 02 26 1952 |
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| Description: | The members of the Madison Theater Guild have worked seven days a week to make costumes for a cast of 30 in the production of "As You Like It". They are wo... |
| Date: | 02 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Pictured is the Madison Theater's Guild's costume designer who uses only the name Loie. |
| Date: | 02 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Lou Doriag tries on her costume for Marilou Durkin. Lou Doriag plays Celia in "As You Like It" in a Madison Theater Guild production. |
| Date: | 02 26 1952 |
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| Description: | An actor from the Madison Theater Guild tries on a costume. |
| Date: | 04 05 1952 |
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| Description: | Five girls from Rio High School are studying an exhibit of dressmaking and dress design. Left to right are Frances Traut, Donna Mae Hebel, Jeanette Wruck,... |
| Date: | 10 27 1917 |
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| Description: | Members of the Girls Sewing Club of Walkenhorst School sitting and standing near a table set up outdoors near what is probably a school building. |
| Date: | 10 30 1917 |
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| Description: | Interior view of tables, a chalkboard, and sewing machines inside the sewing room at Orange Township Consolidated School. |
| Date: | 07 26 1952 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Boys learning to sew. Original caption reads: "Sewing Lesson for Boys of the 7th and 8th grades. These boys are learning how to sew on buttons." |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Female students working in a sewing class taught by Miss Catherine Mulvey. Original caption reads, "Miss Mulvey teaches the primary grades, but on Friday a... |
| Date: | 04 26 1953 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Rena Gigous made 200 cancer dressings in January. The dressings are displayed at Baron's and Yost Kessnichs department stores. |
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| Description: | Four well-dressed people relax in a parlor. They are reading, sewing and playing the piano. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Emma Ketel sits on a sofa sewing with a cat curled up next to her. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Girls sitting around a long table while embroidering white cloth stretched through embroidery hoops. A woman, probably an instructor, is standing at left. ... |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Description: | Sue Mitchell has a sewing room in the corner of her log house. She has lived here since 1977. |
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| Description: | View of young women learning to operate machines in a shirt and overall factory. |
| Date: | 01 16 1967 |
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| Description: | Instructor Ida Mussa (left) assists student Victoria Vega in a power sewing class at Milwaukee Vocational School. Vega is sewing an apron on a Singer sewin... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman using a foot-pedal sewing machine while working with a piece of fraying fabric. |
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