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| Date: | 09 23 1932 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Kate Schmedeman, Mayor Albert G. Schmedeman's wife, sitting in a chair beside a fireplace reading a book in her home, 504 Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 10 30 1931 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a fourth grade class at Washington School, 217 N. Broom Street, at work in the classroom. Caption reads: "A Fourth Grade at Work. Madison Publ... |
| Date: | 08 19 1931 |
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| Description: | Three women of "The Singing Sinners," a vaudeville act at the Orpheum Theater, are reading "The Capitol Times" serial story "Guilty Lips," in their dressin... |
| Date: | 06 23 1931 |
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| Description: | Three University of Wisconsin-Madison coeds are playing cards, and one woman is reading, on the roof of Ann Emery Hall, 265 Langdon Street, an independent ... |
| Date: | 01 15 1931 |
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| Description: | A women dictates to another student practicing for ABC shorthand at the Dickinson Secretarial School, 105 Monona Avenue. |
| Date: | 12 20 1930 |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of Jerome C. and May Holt sitting in rockers in their living room at 1922 Madison Street. |
| Date: | 08 06 1963 |
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| Description: | A mother reads stories on her front steps to children from around the block. |
| Date: | 02 26 1963 |
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| Description: | Four students sit around one flip-top desk to read and work math problems. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Woman reading the bible outdoors while seated in a chair. |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Woman sitting in a chair reading, with one child on a rocking horse and another child in a high chair. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | This is identified as the Jacob Larsen farm, but pictured are Ole Ashburn and his second wife seated in the yard with a table between them. The frame house... |
| 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: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Publicity photograph of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., for his independent, third-party candidacy for the Presidency in 1924. La Follette is outdoors reading,... |
| Date: | 10 23 1956 |
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| Description: | Betty J. DiSalvo reading good night stories to her children, Michael DiSalvo (age 6) and Mark DiSalvo (age 4) after having solicited money for 27 Red Feath... |
| Date: | 03 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Martha Hardin reading to Janet Brahn and Betty Thomsen at the nursery school established on the third floor of the home of University president, Charles A.... |
| Date: | 04 07 1945 |
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| Description: | Barbara Groves searches through a book of clippings of Madison men and women in service. The stories were published in the "Wisconsin State Journal" and 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: | 1847 |
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| Description: | A woman sits at a table reading while apparently neglecting her whole family. |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Dorothy Swan, Katherine Knaplund, Nancy Morehouse, and Virginia Samp. All will be attending Eastern colleges. |
| Date: | 12 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Signe and Peder Sletteland, daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. Perry A. Sletteland, 2150 Chadbourne Avenue, looking at a catalog. She is a student at Skidmor... |
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