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Sewing class

Teacher and students in a class for seamstresses, Dawson, Minnesota, ca. 1900.

Sewing class at Northeast Neighborhood House

A sewing class at Northeast Neighborhood House, 1936.

Sewing class at Owatonna State School

Sewing class at the State School, c.1905.

Photograph of a sewing class at the Jewish Educational Center in St. Paul, 1945.

Sewing class at the Jewish Educational Center, St. Paul

A sewing class at the Jewish Educational Center in St. Paul, September 20, 1945. The class was sponsored and staffed by the Jewish Servicemen's Wives Club.

Sewing class at West Side Neighborhood House

Members of a sewing class at St. Paul’s Neighborhood House, c.1920.

Sewing Club at West Side Neighborhood House, St. Paul

Two members of the Sewing Club at St. Paul’s Neighborhood House, 1911.

Sewing machine used by Nellie Stone Johnson

Electric-powered treadle sewing machine used by Nellie Stone Johnson of Minneapolis, Minnesota, at her alterations business. It features a flat wood table and a foot pedal. Johnson was a prominent civil rights activist and union organizer, as well as the first African American elected official in Minneapolis. She opened and operated her own sewing and alterations shop in 1963.