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| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Family in their living room. The mother watches television, the father reads a newspaper, the daughter reads a book, and two sons play with a train set. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Young children reading at the library. A librarian works near the circulation desk in the background. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seating cap... |
| Date: | 06 13 1918 |
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| Description: | "Here lies the remains of German in B.H.S." is written on the pavement next to a smoldering pile of German textbooks. A car is parked along the curb in the... |
| Date: | 08 08 1906 |
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| Description: | Dr. Charles R. McCarthy and staff at the Legislative Reference Library. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View from front of classroom of children sitting at desks at the Mendota Beach School. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife Olgivanna, seated together reading in a bedroom at Taliesin. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring Green, Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Beatrice C. Gesell and Gerhard Gesell, Jr. play out-of-doors. While mother watches the baby sits on a pillow playing with a volume titled "Educational Pro... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Legislative Reference Library. |
| Date: | 02 08 1941 |
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| Description: | Interior of pharmacy with the prescription case. Standing by the stairs is D.F. Jones, store proprietor. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Office of author August Derleth, Wisconsin's Very Live Radio's (WVLR) unofficial consultant on the history of the Sauk-Prairie area. Derleth's novels and s... |
| Date: | 09 30 1988 |
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| Description: | Young girl holding a book about child care written by Dr. Benjamin Spock, M.D. She is holding the book upside down. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Three children reading books near a bookmobile parked in a suburban neighborhood. The bookmobile was an International Loadstar 1600. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Two young women talking in a bedroom. One is packing or unpacking clothes into a travel bag. A copy of Herbert Quick's "Vandemark's Folly" is among the boo... |
| Date: | 12 28 1981 |
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| Description: | Father reading "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain to his son. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A man dressed in a Smokey Bear costume is standing with two Milwaukee school children. A young girl is sitting at a desk, and a boy is standing and holding... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Women sitting in the library of International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department. |
| Date: | 04 22 1967 |
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| Description: | Two junior high students work on a project that requires making a vocal recording. |
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