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Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

7/1/1986 - 12/31/1987

Funding Totals

$30,000.00 (approved)
$28,405.59 (awarded)

WHAT DO THE SIMPLE FOLK: A Photographic Study of American Working Dress 1830-1915

FAIN: GM-23185-86

State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Madison, WI 53706-1417)
Joan L. Severa (Project Director: December 1985 to September 1990)

To support a study of working class American costumes (1830-1915) and to develop a "Period Clothing Plan" and four handbooks to be used as an interpretive tool at five historic sites in Wisconsin.