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Vogue Fashion Show For Teens

Date: 10 03 1957
Description: Four teenage girls admire a formal dress presented at the Vogue fashion show, designed as a clinic for teenagers who like to sew. Left to right: Cathy Lawl...
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Vogue Fashion Show for Teens

Date: 10 03 1957
Description: Participating in the Vogue fashion show, designed as a clinic for teenagers who like to sew, is Nancy Pfeiffer, a student at Madison East High School. She ...
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Vogue Fashion Show For Teens

Date: 10 03 1957
Description: Participating in the Vogue fashion show, designed as a clinic for teenagers who like to sew, is Donna Haesig, a student at Monroe High School. She is model...
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Vogue Fashion Show for Teens

Date: 10 03 1957
Description: Beverly Richels, a student at Madison East High School, participates in the Vogue fashion show designed as a clinic for teenagers who like to sew. She mode...
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Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Lucy Martinelli Sewing

Date: 1939
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with Lucy Martinelli stitching a seam using an elaborately decorated electric sewing machine. Sewing cla...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Girls Sewing

Date: 1946
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with girls sewing in a handicraft group.
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Adult Sewing Group

Date: 1946
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with three women working on sewing pattern pieces: two women are sitting at a table with a box of patter...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Woman Pinning Pattern

Date: 1946
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a woman standing over a table, pinning a sewing pattern piece to cloth. An ironing board and bookca...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Woman at Sewing Machine

Date: 1946
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a woman using a sewing machine to sew a large piece of cloth patterned with four-leaf clovers. Anot...
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"We Saw You" at the Middleton Fashion Show

Date: 04 26 1957
Description: Don Acker, a Middleton High School baseball player, is shown with student fashion models in their self-made clothes. They include, from left, Marilyn Mille...
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"We Saw You" at the Middleton Fashion Show

Date: 04 26 1957
Description: James Shipley pretends to draw while his fellow pretend pupils, (left to right): Doris Breunig, Ruth Dahik, and Jackie Reisdorf, look on at the Middleton H...
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"We Saw You" at the Middleton Fashion Show

Date: 04 26 1957
Description: At a "We Saw You" fashion show, Miriam Hauri (left), Joan Faust, and Joanne Schoepp model pajamas they made. They are each holding a stuffed animal. The gi...
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"We Saw You" at the Middleton Fashion Show

Date: 04 26 1957
Description: Home Economic students at Middleton High School model the Easter outfits they made. Left to right are: Ruth Ann Frisch, Moreen Gurfoot and Donna Maly. Donn...
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Sewing Saturday Mornings at Neighborhood House

Date: 1924
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...
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Fine Sewing and Lace Making

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Description: Young women practicing fine sewing and lace making at Wisconsin Home for the Feeble Minded.
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Members of Women's Club of Madison with Dolls

Date: 12 10 1958
Description: Mrs. O.H. (Lauraine) Jensen of 2317 East Mifflin Street, chairman of the Women's Club of Madison's orthopedic work, and Mrs. Gertrude Kepke, 2354 Commonwea...
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Holiday Skirt

Date: 12 24 1958
Description: Margaret Kronenberg sits under a Christmas tree while modeling a Christmas skirt she decorated herself. The skirt is made of white felt and was hand-decora...
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Edna Leonard

Date: 1932
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 ...
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School Exhibit

Date: 1925
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...
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Checking Dane County Fair Entries

Date: 07 15 1959
Description: Mrs. Alvin Derr (left), Marshall, and Mrs. Edner Norland, Belleville, check in 2,098 clothing entries at the Dane County Junior Fair.

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