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| 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: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Two students work in the nutrition lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| 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: | 01 1935 |
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| Description: | Sewing project for Milwaukee County women to make and repair clothing for relief families. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Workers preparing ginseng beds in northern Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 03 16 1939 |
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| Description: | Madison Business College women model fashions from Kessenich's store. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A woman factory worker sorting parts at Globe Union Manufacturing Company, maker of batteries, radio apparatus, and spark plugs. |
| Date: | 08 12 1937 |
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| Description: | Two women modeling fur coats for Simpson's women's clothing store, 23 N. Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Men and one woman gathered around machinery in a cutover area of northern Wisconsin preparing to undertake an unknown task. |
| Date: | 05 17 1939 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Auto License Bureau, 16-20 E. Doty Street, Card Typing Department, with women at typewriters and male supervisor. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A large crew works in a sectioned field of cranberries in order to hand pick the harvest from a Wisconsin bog. |
| Date: | 08 12 1937 |
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| Description: | Two women modeling fur coats for Simpson's women's clothing store, 23 N. Pinckney Street. Alternate view. |
| Date: | 08 12 1937 |
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| Description: | Woman modeling full-length fur coat at Simpson's women's clothing store, 23 N. Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 09 05 1935 |
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| Description: | Five men and one woman in the office of the Dane County Outdoor Relief Department, Work Division, 22 W. Doty Street, with maps of projects on the wall. |
| Date: | 09 05 1935 |
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| Description: | Group of men and women standing in front of the Work Division Office, Dane County Outdoor Relief Administration, 22 W. Doty Street. |
| Date: | 09 05 1935 |
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| Description: | Group of men and women sitting on the steps in front of the Work Division Office, Dane County Outdoor Relief Administration, 22 W. Doty Street. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A woman is printing material stretched over a padded table. Another woman is working at a table in the background. |
| Date: | 10 27 1930 |
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| Description: | Beauty operators work on customers in booths while another woman waits in the Comf'y Marcel Beauty Shoppe, 2039 Winnebago Street. Moved to 1917 Winnebago S... |
| Date: | 12 22 1931 |
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| Description: | Vera Milton, waiter, Wisconsin General Hospital. |
| Date: | 03 16 1939 |
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| Description: | Four Madison Business College women modeling floor-length dresses for Kessenichs store. |
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