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| Date: | 04 20 1950 |
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| Description: | Members of Nakoma Girl Scout Troop 107 displaying their needlework projects. Shown left to right are Katy Grimmer, 4018 Council Crest, holding the mittens ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Fennimore High School sewing class poses in classroom. Mathilda Monteith was the instructor. |
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| Description: | Two women pose for an outdoor photograph at the Jonas' campsite at Merrill Springs. One woman sits on a stool with her needlework while another kneels behi... |
| Date: | 10 31 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. George M. (Mary) Extrom of 2121 Fox Avenue served as chairman of the Zor Shriners' sewing project that raises funds for the Shriners' nursing hopsital... |
| 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 ... |
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| Description: | A mother is cutting a pattern from display material on a table. |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman using a foot-pedal sewing machine while working with a piece of fraying fabric. |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman using an electric sewing machine while sitting at a table with latticed sides. |
| 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... |
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