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| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | A group of Fond du Lac women sews clothes for a Civil Works Administration project in 1934. The CWA was an emergency program that lasted from November 1933... |
| 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 22 1936 |
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| Description: | Female workers sewing canvas side folds on binder aprons at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The McCormick Works was built by Cyrus McCormick in ... |
| 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 06 1932 |
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| Description: | Eight women, members of Section 1 of the First Congregational Church, sewing for the Red Cross in the home of Joseph and Augusta C. Steinbach, 509 S. Randa... |
| 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 08 1932 |
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| Description: | Large group of women sewing for the Red Cross in the home of James and Mary McManamy, 2005 Jefferson. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Women and girls sewing in a room at the Pima Agency, near Phoenix. |
| Date: | 04 19 1955 |
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| Description: | Attic Angels Association "sewing bee," where members make aprons, curtains, and other articles for the Visiting Nurse Service. Left to right: Daisy Breyer,... |
| Date: | 01 04 1955 |
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| Description: | Lydia MacKenzie, Helen Burkhart, the instructor, and Lucille Harks participate in a class on textile handicrafts at the Madison Community Center. |
| Date: | 11 22 1955 |
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| Description: | Daughters of Demeter members piecing and tying a patchwork quilt to give to a welfare agency. Pictured left to right are: Naomi Price, Mildred Froker, Carr... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 09 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Participating in the Madison Woman's Club annual benefit party by sewing for the Russian War Relief are members of the Shorewood Hills League, left to righ... |
| 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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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 27 1945 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Charles C. (Alice) Long is shown with the flag she crocheted for her son, Lieutenant Commander H.W. Christensen, who is a surgeon, serving in the Paci... |
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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. |
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