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| Description: | A classroom of students at their desks. There is a woman sitting at a sewing machine and another woman sitting at a typewriter near the windows on the righ... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Detail from original. Original caption reads: "A couple with three children posing in a yard. The woman has a sewing machine, the man has a table saw and l... |
| Date: | 10 24 1962 |
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| Description: | A woman is using a sewing machine on a collection of scrap fabric. Caption reads: "FROM RAGS TO RUGS Our generation of grandparents make advancing age a... |
| Date: | 01 14 1918 |
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| Description: | Industrial sewing machine rigged with twine, used to stitch burlap bags. |
| Date: | 12 14 1956 |
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| Description: | H.S. Manchester's, Incorporated, 2 East Mifflin Street, show window display of Singer Sewing Machines, fabrics, mannequin, and Christmas wreath. |
| Date: | 02 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Decorative wood sewing machine cabinet. |
| Date: | 12 03 1930 |
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| Description: | View of the interior of Tiffany's dress making shop (Creators of Claire Tiffany Frocks, 546 State Street), showing women cutting and sewing dresses at long... |
| Date: | 01 11 1935 |
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| Description: | Several women are sitting at sewing machines. Caption reads: "Milwaukee, Wis Jan 11, 1935. Women making new and repairing old clothing for relief families.... |
| Date: | 02 04 1954 |
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| Description: | Members of the Methodist Hospital Service League during their monthly day of service sewing linens to be used in the hospital. Standing left to right are: ... |
| Date: | 05 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Maria Johnson and Patty Poppa are looking on as Donna Harris is adjusting a sewing machine at Blessed Martin House. The girls in the sewing class made dres... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across State Street towards Singer, a fabric and sewing store in a small building. Signs in the window are advertising a sale, and a mannequin is wear... |
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| Description: | Interior of William Fiebelkorn's home. Next to a window with lace curtains at the window is a rack with a display of photographs or postcards. There is a t... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Women of the Dunn County Chapter of the American Red Cross posed with sewing machines in the Stout Institute Building. |
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| Description: | A logo for Singer Sewing Machine Company. Over the backdrop of a globe and clouds is written "The Sign of Singer Service Throughout the World." In the cent... |
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| Description: | Actors portray I.M. Singer and George Zieber examining an early sewing machine. |
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| Description: | Actors portraying I.M. Singer and his friend George Zieber with the first sewing machine. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with Lucy Martinelli stitching a seam using an elaborately decorated electric sewing machine. Sewing cla... |
| Date: | 09 16 1997 |
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| Description: | "The Ward Allen's use this equipment to manufacture their very attractive garters." |
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