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Ethel Miller Models Coat

Date: 10 08 1953
Description: Sixteen-year old Ethel Miller models a coat her mother, Elizabeth (Mrs. Howard C.), made. The photograph was taken for an article about Elizabeth's seamstr...
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Ethel Miller Models Skirt

Date: 10 08 1953
Description: Ethel Miller models a skirt made by her mother, Elizabeth (Mrs. Howard C.) Miller. The photograph was taken to accompany an article in the Wisconsin Sta...
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Elizabeth and Ethel Miller Modeling Clothing

Date: 10 08 1953
Description: Elizabeth (Mrs. Howard C.) Miller and her daughter Ethel model dresses sewn by Elizabeth. The photograph was taken to accompany a Wisconsin State Journa...
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Osseo Cheerleaders Wearing Indian Headdresses

Date: 03 14 1957
Description: Four Osseo cheerleaders with the letter "O" sewed to their sweaters pose on one knee with pompoms covering their legs. They wear (Sioux) Native American he...
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Neighborhood House Album: Summer Sewing Group

Date: 1932
Description: Group of girls in a summer sewing group at Neighborhood House, posing in their finery with Gay Braxton (back row, center, under ceiling lamp), head residen...
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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: 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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"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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Home Made Style Show at Van Hise Junior High School

Date: 12 15 1964
Description: Students from the 9th grade home economics class at Van Hise Junior High School model for their parents and classmates at a homemade style show at the scho...

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