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| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Three women mend and sew articles of clothing in the University of Wisconsin home economics laboratory. |
| Date: | 02 09 1956 |
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| Description: | Three women prepare "materials used in the making of cancer dressings." The women include Eleanor Britt, Florence Anderson, and Marcia Udelhofen. The orig... |
| Date: | 10 21 1953 |
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| Description: | Nine women are sitting around a table while sewing in preparation for the Beth Israel sisterhood's annual bazaar at 1406 Mound Street. |
| Date: | 01 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Robert J. (Gladys) Murphy of 405 Eugenia Avenue is one of many women enrolled in the tailoring class of Mrs. Helen John, at the Madison Vocational and... |
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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. |
| 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: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Four women in yard, one holding a doll with a woman sitting on the porch behind frame house. There is a man holding a shovel and two children are standing ... |
| Date: | 11 08 1946 |
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| Description: | Three women wearing hats they made in a millinery class at the Madison Vocational School. Seated is Mrs. David (Hilda) Gay, and standing behind her are Mrs... |
| Date: | 12 08 1946 |
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| Description: | Three women in the millinery class at the Madison Vocational School looking at fabrics. Left to right: Mrs. Martelle Swanson, class instructor, and student... |
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| Description: | A group of people are gathered at a campsite next to a tent. A group of men and women are sitting on the ground playing cards, two women are standing, and ... |
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| Description: | View of a woman posing sitting on the porch of a wooden building and sewing a hat, probably a milliner in front of her shop. A small girl is sitting in a r... |
| 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: | 12 07 1932 |
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| Description: | Seven women from the Social Service Department of the Woman's Club sewing for the Red Cross in the lounge of the Woman's Club, 240 W. Gilman Street. |
| 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: | 04 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Fred Kelly leads a group of women at Wesley Methodist Church, 203 Wisconsin Avenue (currently First United Methodist Church), who meet regularly to se... |
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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: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Siri Rustebakke, center, sits in front of a house with her daughters and daughter-in-law and four spinning wheels. Original negative c109. Compare with D31... |
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| Description: | The G. Thompson family poses in front of their wooden house. One woman sits at a sewing machine working on a quilt while another works at a knitting machin... |
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| Description: | Standing in the yard in front of a log house is a man standing and holding crutches in the middle, a woman on the left holding a small girl who is perched ... |
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