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| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Sewing room at Lac du Flambeau U.S. Government School for Indian children. Female students posed at their sewing machines and work tables. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Woman using a Necchi sewing machine. Advertisements are in the background. |
| Date: | 07 17 1926 |
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| Description: | Staged scene of a woman sewing with a young child attempting to help. This photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Depart... |
| Date: | 12 08 1932 |
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| Description: | Large group of women sewing for the Red Cross at St. John's Lutheran Church, 322 East Washington Avenue. Shows a woman sitting behind a sewing machine on t... |
| Date: | 12 03 1930 |
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| Description: | View of the interior of Tiffany's dress making shop (Creators of Claire Tiffany Frocks, 546 State Street), showing women cutting and sewing dresses at long... |
| Date: | 05 31 1964 |
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| Description: | A circle of women talk, sew and thread needles around a Singer sewing machine. |
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| Description: | Alma(?), Wis. Studio portrait of group of women seamstresses and two young children. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family is gathered around table for coffee with a frame house behind that has a sewing machine on its porch, and a lightning rod on the roof. A framed pi... |
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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: | 1972 |
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| Description: | An employee of the Chase Bag company, who was also a member of the Amagalamted Meatcutters and Butcherworkers of North America, stitches at a sewing machin... |
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| Description: | Young girls at work in the Rochester Short Course sewing laboratory, with Nellie Kedzie Jones supervising their work. Many girls are doing handwork and som... |
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| Description: | Six women sewing by hand and with a sewing machine. A dog is in the room and the calendar on the wall shows December 1901. |
| Date: | 11 11 1947 |
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| Description: | Two members of the University of Wisconsin Dames Club working on sewing projects with the "new look". Treadle sewing machines were used. Mrs. W. James Harp... |
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| Description: | Myles Horton visiting citizenship school sewing class for younger members; teacher, Bernice Robinson. "Modernage" sewing machine featured. |
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| Description: | Bernice Williams working with a younger CIO member on a sewing machine at the South Carolina Citizenship group. |
| Date: | 01 31 1949 |
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| Description: | Four ladies observing a woman demonstrating on a sewing machine at the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week. |
| Date: | 04 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. C.H. Nordberg, 44 Nygard Street, looks on as Mrs. Frank G. Miller, 1950 Koster Street, demonstrates her sewing machine skills. They are both members o... |
| Date: | 11 01 1949 |
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| Description: | Pictured are three members of the sewing problems group of the Junior Division of the University League as they met at the home of Mrs. Robert W. (Charlott... |
| Date: | 06 15 1950 |
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| Description: | World War II war relief services. Woman using sewing machine. |
| Date: | 07 30 1951 |
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| Description: | Four members of the Beth Israel Sisterhood gather around a sewing machine while creating items for the upcoming annual Beth Israel bazaar. Pictured from l... |
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