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| 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: | 01 16 1967 |
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| Description: | Instructor Ida Mussa (left) assists student Victoria Vega in a power sewing class at Milwaukee Vocational School. Vega is sewing an apron on a Singer sewin... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Miss Graumann, far left, poses with four dressmakers in front of her shop. A sign on the right side of the door states "Dressmaking, Miss Annie Graumann".... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | About twenty women sit at tables sewing on sewing machines in the sewing room of the Chippewa Woolen Mill. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | View of a woman posing sitting on the porch of a wooden building and sewing a hat, probably a milliner in front of her shop. A small girl is sitting in a r... |
| 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... |
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