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| Description: | Young women practicing fine sewing and lace making at Wisconsin Home for the Feeble Minded. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A quilt made by Elda Strahm, a student at Farmer's Grove School, town of York and New Glarus, is displayed hanging outdoors on a clothes line. There is a ... |
| Date: | 10 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Ethel Miller models a skirt made by her mother, Elizabeth (Mrs. Howard C.) Miller. The photograph was taken to accompany an article in the Wisconsin Sta... |
| Date: | 04 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Fred Kelly leads a group of women at Wesley Methodist Church, 203 Wisconsin Avenue (currently First United Methodist Church), who meet regularly to se... |
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| Description: | A mother is cutting a pattern from display material on a table. |
| 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: | 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: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Edna Leonard, a student at Northey School, posing in front of shrubs near a building. On the reverse of the photograph is written: "Belongs to a local 4-H ... |
| Date: | 02 26 1949 |
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| Description: | Peggy Meyer, member of the Silver Badgers 4-H Club, ironing a dress she is sewing. |
| Date: | 05 10 1956 |
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| Description: | Members of the Eagles Auxiliary meet to make cancer dressings out of used sheets. |
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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: | 03 22 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Earle S. (Edith) Metcalf sewing a Rainbow Star quilt at her home at 3905 Council Crest. It is her nineteenth quilt. |
| Date: | 02 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Pictured is the Madison Theater's Guild's costume designer who uses only the name Loie. |
| Date: | 04 26 1953 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Rena Gigous made 200 cancer dressings in January. The dressings are displayed at Baron's and Yost Kessnichs department stores. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 02 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Decorative wood sewing machine cabinet. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | From a portfolio of collotype prints issued in 1900, a sewing class at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd J... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | An autumn exhibit and fair has been set up in the Centerville School. A post supports streamers which extend to the walls, and examples of needlework and c... |
| Date: | 09 19 1876 |
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| Description: | Left to right: Johannes Brenum (father), Peter, Bernt, Ole, Maria, Ingeborg (mother), Mrs. Margaret Larson (neighbor in plaid dress). Little girl is Minnie... |
| Date: | 03 22 1945 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Eda Haugsland, 207 North Pinckney Street, sewing lapel decorations for the Dane County homework shops which employ persons with disabilities. |
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