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| 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: | 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 11 25 1954 |
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| Description: | Fabric and pattern department of the new Sears store, located at 1101 East Washington Avenue. |
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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: | 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 01 23 1957 |
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| Description: | Harriet Langsdorf and Nellie Westmont of the Antioch temple, Daughters of the Nile, admire some of the sewing which members have made for the Shrine Hospit... |
| Date: | 03 14 1957 |
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| Description: | Four Osseo cheerleaders with the letter "O" sewed to their sweaters pose on one knee with pompoms covering their legs. They wear (Sioux) Native American he... |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | These girl's gloves are made of off-white kid leather. They are completely hand-stitched in beige thread, top stitched around the fingers and thumb, with t... |
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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: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Image from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with girls sitting at a table sewing, Mary Lee Griggs standing and helping, and another woman standing by t... |
| Date: | 09 16 1997 |
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| Description: | "The Ward Allen's use this equipment to manufacture their very attractive garters." |
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