Date: | 1934 |
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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... |
Date: | 01 1935 |
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Description: | Sewing project for Milwaukee County women to make and repair clothing for relief families. |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Fennimore High School sewing class poses in classroom. Mathilda Monteith was the instructor. |
Date: | 1900 |
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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 ... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Emma Ketel sits on a sofa sewing with a cat curled up next to her. |
Date: | 1931 |
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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 ... |
Date: | 1939 |
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Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with Lucy Martinelli stitching a seam using an elaborately decorated electric sewing machine. Sewing cla... |
Date: | 1946 |
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Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with girls sewing in a handicraft group. |
Date: | 1946 |
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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... |
Date: | 1946 |
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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... |
Date: | 1946 |
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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... |
Date: | 1932 |
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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 ... |
Date: | 1956 |
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Description: | Group of Ladies' Sewing Club women posing under a tapestry at Neighborhood House. |
Date: | 1948 |
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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,... |
Date: | 1931 |
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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 ... |
Date: | 1917 |
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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... |
Date: | 01 11 1935 |
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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.... |
Date: | 10 24 1962 |
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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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