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| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman using an electric sewing machine while sitting at a table with latticed sides. |
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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: | 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... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A shoemaker repairs the sole of a boot using a sewing machine. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A shoemaker repairs the sole of a boot using a sewing machine. |
| Date: | 09 16 1997 |
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| Description: | "The Ward Allen's use this equipment to manufacture their very attractive garters." |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a group of women cutting patterns, sewing by hand and machine, pressing a garment, and checking the ... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with Lucy Martinelli stitching a seam using an elaborately decorated electric sewing machine. Sewing cla... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a woman using a sewing machine to sew a large piece of cloth patterned with four-leaf clovers. Anot... |
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| Description: | Actors portraying I.M. Singer and his friend George Zieber with the first sewing machine. |
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| Description: | Actors portray I.M. Singer and George Zieber examining an early sewing machine. |
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| Description: | A logo for Singer Sewing Machine Company. Over the backdrop of a globe and clouds is written "The Sign of Singer Service Throughout the World." In the cent... |
| Date: | 02 09 1956 |
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| Description: | Two women, one standing, and the other sitting by a sewing machine "are examining some of the men's shirts which have been converted into bed jackets for a... |
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| Description: | Interior of William Fiebelkorn's home. Next to a window with lace curtains at the window is a rack with a display of photographs or postcards. There is a t... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Parade float on which ten women are standing, some posing with knitting needles or behind a sewing machine. Two men and one woman are standing on the groun... |
| Date: | 02 04 1954 |
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| Description: | Members of the Methodist Hospital Service League during their monthly day of service sewing linens to be used in the hospital. Standing left to right are: ... |
| Date: | 05 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Maria Johnson and Patty Poppa are looking on as Donna Harris is adjusting a sewing machine at Blessed Martin House. The girls in the sewing class made dres... |
| Date: | 01 11 1935 |
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| Description: | Several women are sitting at sewing machines. Caption reads: "Milwaukee, Wis Jan 11, 1935. Women making new and repairing old clothing for relief families.... |
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