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| Description: | Students in cooking class at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school, operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A class of girls learn how to set a table in domestic science class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Dressmaking instruction outdoors, with one woman serving as a model. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Dressmaking instructor conducting an outdoor dressmaking class. |
| 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. |
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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... |
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| Description: | Cooking short course class at the Rochester under the supervision of Nellie Kedzie Jones. |
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| Description: | Agricultural extension cooking class, probably at Wausau, supervised by Nellie Kedzie Jones. |
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| Description: | Women learning the dressmaking trade at an ORT school in a displaced persons camp; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivo... |
| Date: | 02 12 1915 |
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| Description: | Room filled with women, some with children, attending a Farmers' Institute Cooking School class at Spring Valley, Wisconsin. There is a table with ingredie... |
| Date: | 12 27 1899 |
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| Description: | Illustrations from the Boston Herald of scenes at the school of housekeeping, including "in the kitchen" and "studying hygiene". |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Fennimore High School sewing class poses in classroom. Mathilda Monteith was the instructor. |
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| Description: | A cooking class with 11 women standing around large tables with various cooking ephemera. |
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| Description: | View from across a room of a home economics class at Martha Berry Girls' School, established in 1909. Women gather around an area enclosed by tables and ob... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Boys learning to sew. Original caption reads: "Sewing Lesson for Boys of the 7th and 8th grades. These boys are learning how to sew on buttons." |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Female students working in a sewing class taught by Miss Catherine Mulvey. Original caption reads, "Miss Mulvey teaches the primary grades, but on Friday a... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Girls sitting around a long table while embroidering white cloth stretched through embroidery hoops. A woman, probably an instructor, is standing at left. ... |
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| Description: | View of young women learning to operate machines in a shirt and overall factory. |
| Date: | 11 08 1984 |
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| Description: | Students prepare a curried beef dinner in a Waukesha County Technical Institute cooking class led by Juanita Decker (right, in chef's hat). |
| Date: | 09 25 1957 |
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| Description: | The Zimmerman twins, Lettie and Lloyd, celebrated their 11th birthday with 54 friends and 12 teachers at Lincoln School. Left to right are: Miriam Melrose,... |
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