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| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Halle Steensland poses seated in a rocking chair in the beautifully decorated sitting room in her house at 315 North Carroll Street. She appears to be... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An elderly woman in headscarf, checked dress and sweater, sits outdoors knitting. Identified as Martha Schilling, wife of Adam Rebholz from Portage, Wiscon... |
| Date: | 02 23 1954 |
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| Description: | Rose Karney, crocheting, has an anemic condition which requires frequent blood transfusions. |
| Date: | 03 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Frank J. Vaughn reads to 6-year-old Kenneth Lemmer, Jr. and 5-year-old Ann Lemmer while the children's grandmother, Kath B. Morrissey, works on an afg... |
| Date: | 03 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Elsie Smavy (right), bedridden in her seventh year of polio and with limited movement in her lower arms, creates embroidery. Her children, Molly, 7, and Ni... |
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| Description: | An outdoor group portrait of a birthday party. A cake with many candles and a lace tablecloth sits on a table in front. Most of the party are dressed up. N... |
| Date: | 11 18 1954 |
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| Description: | (Left to right) Mrs. Frank (Clara) Zeier, Mrs. J.W. (Lucille) Noltner, Mrs. Wilfred J. (Blanche) Schlimgen, and Mrs. Joseph (Edith) Hoffman plan the annual... |
| Date: | 04 03 1957 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Harvey (Bonita) Hubanks sitting next to a fireplace in the family room adjacent to the kitchen in their home at 4206 Jerome Street in Madison. The kit... |
| Date: | 12 13 1957 |
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| Description: | Mary Gillin is sitting behind a table with a display of 21 pairs of mittens of various sizes with wrist stripes that she knitted to donate to The Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with women from the Good Times Club holding up an afghan they made for the Red Cross. A group of women, ... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype. Waist-up portrait of Elsey Ormsbee Bristol. Elsey was born May 27, 1783; married August 1, 1804 at Warwick, Massachusetts to Cha... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Groups of children are sitting at tables for a Saturday morning sewing group at Neighborhood House, with a woman helping the children at each table. One bo... |
| Date: | 07 1903 |
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| Description: | Mary Krueger knitting in a rocking chair in the yard while her grandchildren are sitting on the ground beside her. Jennie Krueger is sitting to her right, ... |
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| Description: | Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying two photographs and two captions with extensive details of the camp's war efforts. Several campers in each photo... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of unidentified family posing around two tables in a yard. Includes mother, father, and seven children. In the background is a large, three-sto... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Martin K. Dahl, far left, sits with three women around a table which has been set in front of an iron fence which encloses a manicured yard. Two of the wom... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A seated portrait of Catherine Orb Seipp sitting near a window, knitting. Her upholstered chair has carved wood accents. |
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| Description: | Interior group portrait of three European American woman posing sitting and looking at a book. The woman on the left is knitting. |
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| Description: | Formal outdoor family group portrait. From left to right are Delia Scott Fowler (who is knitting), Caroline Fowler Gilbert (standing), Gertrude Fowler (sea... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Parade float on which ten women are standing, some posing with knitting needles or behind a sewing machine. Two men and one woman are standing on the groun... |
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