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| 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: | 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: | 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. |
| Date: | 10 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Elizabeth (Mrs. Howard C.) Miller models a French-style suit she made. The photograph was taken to accompany an article about Elizabeth's seamstress work f... |
| Date: | 10 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Sixteen-year old Ethel Miller models a coat her mother, Elizabeth (Mrs. Howard C.), made. The photograph was taken for an article about Elizabeth's seamstr... |
| Date: | 10 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Ethel Miller models a skirt made by her mother, Elizabeth (Mrs. Howard C.) Miller. The photograph was taken to accompany an article in the Wisconsin Sta... |
| Date: | 10 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Elizabeth (Mrs. Howard C.) Miller and her daughter Ethel model dresses sewn by Elizabeth. The photograph was taken to accompany a Wisconsin State Journa... |
| Date: | 10 21 1953 |
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| Description: | Nine women are sitting around a table while sewing in preparation for the Beth Israel sisterhood's annual bazaar at 1406 Mound Street. |
| Date: | 09 26 1953 |
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| Description: | Six members of the social relations group of the Guild of the First Baptist Church work on making blankets, curtains, bed linens, and other needed article... |
| Date: | 02 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Violette Wartzok demonstrates a procedure in the drapery-making class at the Madison Vocational and Adult School. |
| Date: | 04 03 1954 |
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| Description: | Frances Larson putting the final touches on a formal dress modeled by her daughter Laurie, age 14. Frances, labeled a "modiste" or one who makes fashionabl... |
| Date: | 11 10 1954 |
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| Description: | Stewardess Mary Ogle models a wool suit she made. Looking on is Bill Domres, formerly a steward for North Central who became a station agent when the airli... |
| Date: | 11 25 1954 |
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| Description: | Fabric and pattern department of the new Sears store, located at 1101 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 05 10 1956 |
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| Description: | Members of the Eagles Auxiliary meet to make cancer dressings out of used sheets. |
| Date: | 01 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Robert J. (Gladys) Murphy of 405 Eugenia Avenue is one of many women enrolled in the tailoring class of Mrs. Helen John, at the Madison Vocational and... |
| Date: | 01 23 1957 |
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| Description: | Harriet Langsdorf and Nellie Westmont of the Antioch temple, Daughters of the Nile, admire some of the sewing which members have made for the Shrine Hospit... |
| Date: | 03 14 1957 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Image from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with girls sitting at a table sewing, Mary Lee Griggs standing and helping, and another woman standing by t... |
| Date: | 06 25 1957 |
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| Description: | Joanne Peters Rothe sitting in the living room of her home while hemming a drape for a nearby window. The photograph is one of a series showing how newlywe... |
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