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Women Sewing for Civil Works Administration Project

Date: 1934
Description: A group of Fond du Lac women sews clothes for a Civil Works Administration project in 1934. The CWA was an emergency program that lasted from November 1933...
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Milwaukee Sewing Project

Date: 01 1935
Description: Sewing project for Milwaukee County women to make and repair clothing for relief families.
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Fennimore Sewing Class

Date: 1913
Description: Fennimore High School sewing class poses in classroom. Mathilda Monteith was the instructor.
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Singer Cabinet Table

Date: 1900
Description: "The Reader," an illustration of a woman reading while seated at a lace-covered sewing machine cabinet. The illustration was part of "The Universal Sewing ...
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Emma Ketel Sewing

Date: 1900
Description: Emma Ketel sits on a sofa sewing with a cat curled up next to her.
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: Bluebirds and Sewing Class

Date: 1931
Description: Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with two images. The one on top is of the Bluebirds girls' group playing musical instruments as adults lead ...
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Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Lucy Martinelli Sewing

Date: 1939
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with Lucy Martinelli stitching a seam using an elaborately decorated electric sewing machine. Sewing cla...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Girls Sewing

Date: 1946
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with girls sewing in a handicraft group.
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Adult Sewing Group

Date: 1946
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with three women working on sewing pattern pieces: two women are sitting at a table with a box of patter...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Woman Pinning Pattern

Date: 1946
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a woman standing over a table, pinning a sewing pattern piece to cloth. An ironing board and bookca...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Woman at Sewing Machine

Date: 1946
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a woman using a sewing machine to sew a large piece of cloth patterned with four-leaf clovers. Anot...
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Edna Leonard

Date: 1932
Description: Edna Leonard, a student at Northey School, posing in front of shrubs near a building. On the reverse of the photograph is written: "Belongs to a local 4-H ...
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Neighborhood House Ladies' Sewing Club

Date: 1956
Description: Group of Ladies' Sewing Club women posing under a tapestry at Neighborhood House.
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Mexican Tourist Jacket and Hat for Child

Date: 1948
Description: Mexican Tourist Jacket and Hat. These garments were made in 1948 by Mrs. Louise Wild (1891-1980), a dairy farmer's wife, from Adams Township, Green County,...
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Broken Star Quilt

Date: 1931
Description: A quilt made by Elda Strahm, a student at Farmer's Grove School, town of York and New Glarus, is displayed hanging outdoors on a clothes line. There is a ...
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National League for Women's Service Float

Date: 1917
Description: Parade float on which ten women are standing, some posing with knitting needles or behind a sewing machine. Two men and one woman are standing on the groun...
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Work Relief Sewing Project

Date: 01 11 1935
Description: Several women are sitting at sewing machines. Caption reads: "Milwaukee, Wis Jan 11, 1935. Women making new and repairing old clothing for relief families....
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From Rags to Rugs

Date: 10 24 1962
Description: A woman is using a sewing machine on a collection of scrap fabric. Caption reads: "FROM RAGS TO RUGS Our generation of grandparents make advancing age a...

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