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| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Three men at the University of Wisconsin, with tent and sign that reads "People of Madison! Vets in tent need rooms to rent". |
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| Description: | Homer Bigart, (1907-1991) award winning journalist with the "New York Herald-Tribune" and the "New York Times". |
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| Description: | A scrapbook page containing five photographs of John R. Commons and farm labor. The handwriting in the center reads: "Dale Farm with AL and Windy." Caption... |
| Date: | 02 26 1963 |
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| Description: | Four students sit around one flip-top desk to read and work math problems. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | H.L. Mencken sits at the breakfast table reading the newspaper and dining on toast and a goblet of beer. He autographed the photograph with "Breakfast in t... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Carnegie Library, Richland Center, WI. Two people are seated at a table reading at the far left. A frieze decorates the wall above a d... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Library Reading Room as completed in 1901, showing skylights and ceiling fixtures, library tables and lights, and many University of Wisconsin students at ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Log cabin known as the "haunted house" on Rock Island, remodeled by Chester Thordarson. There are three people sitting on the porch. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin students (primarily women) studying in the Historical Society Library Reading Room. On the left is the Visitors Gallery. |
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| Description: | Catherine Winston, a staff member at the Highlander Folk School, reading a book and smoking a cigarette. |
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| Description: | A group of manual laborers are reading books near a tent. "TVA" [Tennessee Valley Authority] has been collaged over the image. Part of a series of Highland... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Thelma Mothershed, one of the Little Rock Nine, reading a book. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Martin and Eva Lauffer Deutschkron in a Berlin apartment shared with his parents. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Otto G. Ansorge sits in his home on Lake Avenue and reads. Ansorge was a jeweler and band director in Winneconne. |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Mabel Tainter Memorial Library. The library opened in 1891 and was funded by a $95,000 gift from Captain & Mrs. A. Tainter. On the rig... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Stevens Point Public Library. The library opened in 1904 and was funded by a $22,000 donation from Andrew Carnegie. In the room are re... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Stevens Point Public Library. The library opened in 1904 and was funded by a $22,000 donation from Andrew Carnegie. The children's Roo... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Stevens Point Public Library. The library opened in 1904 and was funded by a $22,000 donation from Andrew Carnegie. In the room is a p... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Several young men, probably students, are seated side by side on a couch reading books. The caption beneath the image reads "Reading--A Good Form of Recrea... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | "The Reader," an illustration of a woman reading while seated at a lace-covered sewing machine cabinet. The illustration was part of "The Universal Sewing ... |
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