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Studio Portrait of Women Reading a Magazine

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Description: Studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of four young women posing looking at a copy of "Outdoors Magazine."
Print

The Sun Is His Furnace

Date: 10 1943
Description: A page from "The American Magazine" featuring the architect, George Fred Keck. He is shown with an architectural model of a "solar" home.
Photograph

Edgewood High School Junior-Senior Prom

Date: 05 07 1957
Description: Planning the decorations for the Edgewood High School Junior-Senior Prom are, L to R: John Shaffer; Alice Keyes, Chairman; Jim Casey and Pat Reis. They are...
Photograph

Nu Pi Chi Club Printing the First Edition of "The Neighbor"

Date: 10 1937
Description: Members of the Nu Pi Chi (Neighborhood Press Club) working on the first edition of "The Neighbor," a newsletter printed at Neighborhood House. Pictured fro...
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Edward Hollander with Chart

Date: 02 1954
Description: Edward D. Hollander, national director of Americans for Democratic Action, refers to a chart with the title, "Doom and Gloom — Look who's talking".
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Worker Stocking Freezer Cabinet with Ice Cream

Date: 1977
Description: A routeman for Lilly Ice Cream of Bryan, Texas, is stocking a freezer cabinet with a sign that reads: "Lilly Ice Cream." The man is wearing dark blue slack...
Photograph

Soldier with Muddy Boots Reading TIME Magazine

Date: 01 22 1944
Description: A soldier, Sergeant Robert Witzlsteiner of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, reads TIME magazine with his very muddy boots propped on a box. His rifle is across...
Photograph

Modern Home Hotel

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Description: Front porch at Modern Home Hotel. There is a drinking fountain in the foreground on the left. The furniture on the porch includes a desk, rocking chairs, a...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Calendar — December

Date: 1893
Description: Calendar back, with the month of December. Features an illustration of the Buckeye Binders and Mowers Factory buildings. In the foreground on the right a y...
Photograph

Madison Public Library Scenes

Date: 03 11 1961
Description: Men and women crowd around two library tables while reading. The photograph is one of a series showing the crowded conditions at the Madison Public Library...
Photograph

Ernst Schmidt, Reading

Date: 02 02 1975
Description: Ernst Schmidt, at age 81, sits reading the "Wisconsin Magazine of History" at a table at Black Point. A telephone and lamp with a stained glass shade stand...
Photograph

Morris Rubin, Editor of The Progressive

Date: 04 14 1964
Description: An informal portrait of Morris Rubin sitting at his desk, decked with a glass ashtray, pack of cigarette and matchbook, rotary-dial telephone and papers. S...
Photograph

Old Maid's Hall

Date: 1905
Description: A young woman, Jessie Underwood, reclining supported on one elbow on a fur rug in front of a piano. In front of her lying on the rug is a cat. Light comes ...
Magazine or Periodical

Edison's Electric Generator in Scientific American

Date: 10 18 1879
Description: Depiction of Edison's Electric Generator in the weekly journal of practical information, art, science, chemistry and manufactures. It is an electrical gene...
Magazine or Periodical

Advice To The Young Architect

Date: 05 1931
Description: A magazine article titled, "Advice To The Young Architect," featuring a photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Photograph

Riverside High Boys Send Reading Materials

Date: 1918
Description: Several boys are posing with stacks of bound periodicals. An American flag is in the foreground. Caption reads: "Boys of Riverside High School, Milwaukee, ...
Photograph

Madison Free Library

Date: 01 28 1954
Description: A girl is sitting and working with material in the reference room of the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street.
Photograph

John Walsh and General Olson

Date: 02 18 1954
Description: John Walsh, University of Wisconsin boxing coach, is showing an issue of Esquire magazine to General Olson at a Rotary Club meeting. The February is...
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Magazine Display for Life Magazine

Date: 03 16 1954
Description: Magazine and newspaper rack at the Rennebohm Drug Store #16 at 2801 East Washington Avenue.
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Madison Newspapers Meeting

Date: 08 06 1954
Description: Group portrait of eight men at a meeting of Madison Newspapers, Inc., the publisher of the Madison State Journal and Capitol Times.

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