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| Date: | 02 03 1958 |
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| Description: | Mary Jean Stoddard demonstrates the art of weaving at the UW Farm and Home Exhibit. Watching her work (left to right) are: Mrs. Theodore Herwig (North Free... |
| Date: | 08 18 1832 |
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| Description: | Hollow-cut silhouette of July Strong Hart. Cut-out of paper with pencil detailing and a cloth background. |
| The Milwaukee Handicraft Project was a program of the Work Projects Administration (WPA) that employed women to make handmade products. |
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| Sampler embroidered by Cecilia Lewis at a boarding school in 1809. (Museum object #1984.294.1) |
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| Land of the Freed-up Woman American flag banner made from bras, 1971. (Museum object #2000.79.1) |
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| Variation of a friendship quilt using neckties made by Allie Crumble, 1982. (Museum object #1996.118.16) |
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| Block-printed wall hanging produced by workers of the Milwaukee Handicraft Project, 1935-1943. (Museum object #1981.184.4) |
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| "Broken Star" quilt made from flour and feed sacks for a 4-H project, 1931. (Museum object #2005.115.1) |
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| Quilt made of fair prize ribbons won by William H. Milward between 1908 and 1934. (Museum object #2004.12.1) |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Eight Native American men pose around the two-story stucco sided Pueblo Home. They are all wearing traditional dress, with four wearing headdresses, and on... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A Native American boy and girl pose standing in front of a tipi on a hill by a lake. The tipi is covered with a fringed blanket. |
| Date: | 10 08 1959 |
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| Description: | Mary Paulick sitting on the floor while working on a large braided rug. |
| Date: | 11 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Winners of the Wisconsin "Make It Yourself with Wool" contest are shown with their work. At left is Kay Lyon, junior winner (ages 14 - 17); on the right is... |
| Date: | 10 12 1959 |
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| Description: | Kate Schultz is shown with a sport coat she made for her husband from fabric that she wove. She also hooked the rug at her feet, upholstered the chair she ... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Two Native American children, a girl and a boy, standing in front of a small teepee with a blanket draped over part of it. |
| Date: | 05 15 1961 |
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| Description: | Barbara Blaedel, Sylvia Graf, and Mary Woelfel wear hats they designed and made, and will model at the University League brunch and program. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Anna Goodvillage, at her home at Hemlock Creek, weaving a basket while sitting beneath a wigwam type shelter attached to the side of a wood and bark frame ... |
| Date: | 09 15 1961 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Jerome Schwartzbaum (left) and Gertrude Kimbrough look at decorative hookings made by members of the handicrafts group of the Junior Division of the U... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Women of the Hafezi family making bread with ingredients supplied by United States aid to Iran. One of the women weaves a basket. |
| Date: | 12 22 1964 |
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| Description: | Henry Hinze, age 83, working on a hooked rug to give to his children. He has been hooking rugs since he had a heart attack ten years ago. |
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