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| Description: | View of the roof garden at the Central Club for Nurses, completed in 1916 by architects Parish and Schroeder. The Central Club for Nurses was built for the... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Gerhard Gesell sitting in a chair reading an issue of the "Photographic Recorder". |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of the reading room of the First Church of Christ Scientist, built in 1903. A man and a woman are sitting at a table surrounded by chairs and wooden b... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | View from front of a classroom of students sitting at their desks in the Sedan Prairie School. A large round woodstove is in the back right corner of the r... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Students sit at desks inside Sedan Prairie School while others stand in the back of the classroom to prepare lunch. The poster hanging on the back wall rea... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Halle Steensland poses in his lavishly decorated library at his house on 315 North Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A view of three men sitting outdoors and reading on the Senior Bench at the University of Illinois. The seat is made of stone and "1900" is engraved into i... |
| Date: | 06 10 1952 |
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| Description: | Grandfather Harry L. Geisler reads a Woman's Day magazine to his grandchildren, Timmy (James William), 5, and Nancy Anne, 2, at their home at 3120 Oxford R... |
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| Description: | Interior of a library reading room. A man and two women sit at tables, reading. A door leads out of the room on the left, and windows have open transoms on... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of New York University's library reading room taken from the upper level balcony. Founded in 1831, the university's reading room features lar... |
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| Description: | Interior of a reading room at Willard Straight Hall, opened in 1925. The hall can be found in the union of Cornell University, founded in 1865. Men sit an... |
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| Description: | View down the front hall at Perkiomen Seminary, towards a room with a group of men reading around a table. Hall furnishings include two carpets and a group... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Mr. Lutfring sitting in a wicker rocking chair while reading a newspaper. The room is furnished with an upholstered divan, lamp with fringe shade, carpetin... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Unidentified woman seated in a wicker chair reading in the Jane Adams room at Rockford College. A walled-over fireplace is on the wall behind her, and an H... |
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| Description: | Four well-dressed people relax in a parlor. They are reading, sewing and playing the piano. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with man sitting in an easy chair in front of a fireplace. He is smoking a pipe and reading a book. There is a model sailing ship on the mantl... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Portrait of John Muir. He is seated and is reading a book. |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting in a wooden chair while reading and resting his foot against a woodstove. The photograph was staged at International Harvester's Hinsdale ... |
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| Description: | Four members of the Bailey family, two men and two women, stand and sit around a small table in front of a fireplace. There is a music stand below the wind... |
| Date: | 08 1931 |
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| Description: | Mrs. L.A. Hawkins sitting on a couch while reading "The Farmer's Wife" magazine in the living room of her home. A fireplace is on the opposite wall, and ch... |
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