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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... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 09 19 1876 |
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| Description: | Left to right: Johannes Brenum (father), Peter, Bernt, Ole, Maria, Ingeborg (mother), Mrs. Margaret Larson (neighbor in plaid dress). Little girl is Minnie... |
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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: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Chromolithograph card of an American woman, posing near a Singer sewing machine. Her daughter stands on a pillow, watching as her mother sews. |
| 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: | 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a wooden house, with a family, including a man, woman, dog and child on the porch. The woman is using a sewing machine near the open front... |
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| Description: | Standing in the yard in front of a log house is a man standing and holding crutches in the middle, a woman on the left holding a small girl who is perched ... |
| Date: | 12 24 1958 |
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| Description: | Margaret Kronenberg sits under a Christmas tree while modeling a Christmas skirt she decorated herself. The skirt is made of white felt and was hand-decora... |
| Date: | 09 1899 |
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| Description: | Outdoor family portrait of Mary Turvill McConnell, Elizabeth Turvill Wood, and Jessie Turvill Thwaites. They are sitting on a porch in front of windows wit... |
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| Description: | Laurie and Muriel Peterson playing indoors. Muriel is sitting in a chair sewing with a basket on the floor near her. Laurie is playing with blocks. |
| Date: | 12 02 1958 |
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| Description: | Group of grandmothers from a clothing class at Madison Vocational and Adult School that make clothing for their grandchildren. Genevieve Sorenson (left) ad... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the store with a false front. A sign along the porch on the left reads: "Millinery" and a sign in the center reads: "Wm. Dittberner, Merch... |
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