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| Date: | 04 01 1960 |
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| Description: | A fashionably dressed woman is sharing a book with an elderly woman. |
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| Description: | A woman in dark glasses, who is a resident of Dane County Hospital and Home, reads a book in Braille as her therapist looks on. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A carefully posed scene of a man, woman, and girl at home. The girl sits with a cat on her lap. The man, in a wicker rocker, reads the "Editorial Section" ... |
| Date: | 12 14 1953 |
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| Description: | Ada Moseley of 616 North Carroll Street demonstrates a Christmas custom by sitting near a fireplace reading "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Clara Middleton poses seated in a chair, reading. She is wearing a narrow fur stole over her shoulder. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Forest Middleton, wearing a visor and moccassins, sits at a roll top desk. He holds an open book and is smoking a pipe. There are two oil lamps on the desk... |
| Date: | 03 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Frank J. Vaughn reads to 6-year-old Kenneth Lemmer, Jr. and 5-year-old Ann Lemmer while the children's grandmother, Kath B. Morrissey, works on an afg... |
| Date: | 02 14 1956 |
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| Description: | Hazel Hargrove, freshman at Central High School, reads to her blind neighbor, Mrs. L.E. Grandison, as a Lenten expression of concern for others. |
| Date: | 03 01 1957 |
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| Description: | Ann Griffith reads to Jamie Lou, age 4, and Terry, 1 year, daughters of Patrick and Ardus Stone. Ann Griffith is participating in the University of Wiscons... |
| Date: | 03 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Roland and Winnie Delameter sitting in their living room while reading to their children, Sandra, age 6 years, left, and Ronalee, age 4 & 1/2 years. Roland... |
| Date: | 05 13 1957 |
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| Description: | Junior Aide volunteer Kathleen Hensen reading a story to 4-year-old Jennifer Bahowick at her bedside in Madison General Hospital. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | First page of an album kept by Neighborhood House, with individual images of head resident Gay Braxton, second resident Mary Lee Griggs, and two exterior v... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House with images from the Play School: a group of children posing outdoors with buckets and a parasol, director... |
| Date: | 02 05 1957 |
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| Description: | Walter Ladwig of Juda (left) and Oscar Wold of Hillsboro reading The "Wisconsin State Journal" between sessions at the annual University of Wisconsin's Far... |
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| Description: | One boy reads a book to a group of boys who are seated or lying in front of him by a fireplace. A sign on the mantel reads, "Silence". Boy Scout insignia a... |
| Date: | 03 29 1960 |
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| Description: | Wives of three airman based at Truax Field participate in an American citizenship course offered by the Truax Field Education Center. Left to right: Shie B... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Two views of the interior of the La Follette, Harper, Roe & Zimmerman law office. Mr. Zimmerman is sitting in his inner office; the lady in the foreground ... |
| Date: | 07 01 1954 |
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| Description: | Central High student Karen Haessler sits at a desk while examining a study manual in preparation for a driver's test. |
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| Description: | First bookcase at the Wisconsin Historical Society, with two glass paneled doors that are slightly open to show three shelves with books. |
| Date: | 03 11 1961 |
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| Description: | Young people crowded around library tables laden with stacks of books. The photograph is one of a series showing the crowded conditions at the Madison Publ... |
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