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| Date: | 1800 |
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| Description: | Needlework scene on silk worked in colored silk thread using running and crewel stitches. The hands and faces of the figures are watercolor on paper. Sce... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Gown made by Charles Frederick Worth of Paris for Frances Fairchild, wife of Wisconsin Governor Lucius Fairchild. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Gown made by Charles Frederick Worth of Paris for Frances Fairchild, wife of Wisconsin Governor Lucius Fairchild. |
| Date: | 05 04 2010 |
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| Description: | A girl doll dating back to 1890-1900. She is painted brown, and wearing a striped coat over a flowered dress. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | View of a long-sleeve, brown and white checked dress worn by Cora Cundiff. |
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| Description: | Front view of a boy's dress made of blue and off-white windowpane check cotton with off-white batiste trim. The dress was made 1900-1910. |
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| Description: | A bisque doll of a woman with her face and hands painted black. She is wearing a red plaid dress with two aprons. The doll was made in Germany in 1890-1910... |
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| Description: | She didn't quite make clear what we were going to find when we got here on the outer edge of worry It wasn't Chinamen and it wasn't wild rice A ha... |
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| Description: | Unkind to speak of the ancestral vocabulary as dream-talk, unkind to wake the dreamer |
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| Description: | The arrangements Somebody takes care of it: planning the details, announcements, transportation, setting the tone, fitting all the likel... |
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| Description: | If everything stopped dead — watches, tickers, hands — on every island something new would bloom and another age begin |
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| Description: | A working lifetime minted these good coins – every day devoted to circulating them through the same routine streets wore them thin into retirement |
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| Description: | 200 years this tree grew here and so did I We were raised here and brought up young ones |
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| Description: | The visionaries: slightly seeing as many improvements as there are egos to reckon with |
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| Description: | The style of reachings, temporal or spiritual, for transformation of the earth. The chapel of Rockford Female Seminary, later Rockford College, 1889-1892... |
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| Description: | I'll show you all the imported graces and you shall see New Fontainebleau |
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| Description: | Well-scrubbed proprieties, in no danger except the possible over-minding of their own manners or being out-voted by Activists |
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| Description: | Sunday was the day when, to a stranger, almost nothing happened. But to us it was the best day of all |
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| Description: | To some who want to leave it would be dull But to us who want to stay the moment is surprising: never lax only turning out of nowhere lastin... |
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| Description: | There are Gothic ways the light comes drifting through a forest clothes fit, things pad themselves stone rests on stone and legends long persist, ... |
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