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| Date: | 05 31 1964 |
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| Description: | A circle of women talk, sew and thread needles around a Singer sewing machine. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Dressmaking instruction outdoors, with one woman serving as a model. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Dressmaking instructor conducting an outdoor dressmaking class. |
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| Description: | The G. Thompson family posing in front of their wooden house. One woman is sitting at a sewing machine working on a quilt while another is working at a kn... |
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| Description: | Two girls seated on a bench outdoors and working inkle looms. |
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| Description: | Alma(?), Wis. Studio portrait of group of women seamstresses and two young children. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Siri Rustebakke, center, sits in front of a house with her daughters and daughter-in-law and four spinning wheels. Original negative c109. Compare with D31... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Four women in yard, one holding a doll with a woman sitting on the porch behind frame house. There is a man holding a shovel and two children are standing ... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Twenty-eight people and one dog are posed in the yard of a wood frame house. A lap dog is sitting on a chair balanced on top of a fence post. A woman at th... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Family in yard around table, and a man standing with tool on the right. Behind the group is a Greek Revival house that has a sewing machine on the porch. T... |
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| Description: | Women and girls sewing in a room at the Pima Agency, near Phoenix. |
| Date: | 10 01 1947 |
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| Description: | H.S. Manchester Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street, show window displaying the Vogue "1947 look" in women's clothing. Includes a mannequin dressed in the 1947 lon... |
| Date: | 02 22 1952 |
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| Description: | Hill's Department Store, 202 State Street, sewing display window including three female mannequins, fabric, dress patterns, and two signs stating "You Save... |
| Date: | 02 18 1953 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Pfaff Sewing Machine Company sales meeting at the Park Hotel, 22 South Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 03 09 1953 |
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| Description: | Frostman's woolens window display with two mannequins wearing suits in Manchester's, Inc., corner window #4, taken from East Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 03 09 1953 |
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| Description: | Frostman's woolens window display with two mannequins wearing suits in Manchester's, Inc., corner window #4, taken from Wisconsin Avenue. |
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| Description: | The G. Thompson family poses in front of their wooden house. One woman sits at a sewing machine working on a quilt while another works at a knitting machin... |
| Date: | 04 19 1955 |
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| Description: | Attic Angels Association "sewing bee," where members make aprons, curtains, and other articles for the Visiting Nurse Service. Left to right: Daisy Breyer,... |
| Date: | 01 04 1955 |
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| Description: | Lydia MacKenzie, Helen Burkhart, the instructor, and Lucille Harks participate in a class on textile handicrafts at the Madison Community Center. |
| Date: | 11 22 1955 |
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| Description: | Daughters of Demeter members piecing and tying a patchwork quilt to give to a welfare agency. Pictured left to right are: Naomi Price, Mildred Froker, Carr... |
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