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| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife Olgivanna, seated together reading in a bedroom at Taliesin. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring Green, Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Three children reading books near a bookmobile parked in a suburban neighborhood. The bookmobile was an International Loadstar 1600. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Female workers and an attendant reading magazines and relaxing inside a "rest room" at International Harvester's Osborne Twine Mill. The Osborne Works was ... |
| Date: | 09 10 1987 |
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| Description: | A traffic crossing guard reading while she is waiting for a Grafton elementary school to dismiss its students for the day. |
| Date: | 01 07 1935 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Phillip (Isabel) La Follette reading to Bob and Judy, her children, at the Governor's Residence, 130 East Gilman Street. |
| Date: | 11 24 1933 |
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| Description: | Cedric Parker, Capital Times newsman, reads Time magazine while under the hair dryer at Mrs. Wengel's Marinello Shop, 125 State Street. Lucille Bump... |
| 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: | 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: | 04 20 1928 |
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| Description: | Three women (including American Girl — Miss Leeds and Miss Madison — Miss Rosenfeldt / Rosenthal) looking at "The American Hairdresser" magazine in the Ros... |
| 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: | 06 27 1945 |
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| Description: | Six children with a day care worker. The Abraham Lincoln School for Social Science of Chicago, Illinois, sponsored a Summer Institute in Madison for severa... |
| 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: | 05 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Kenneth Duckett and Alan E. Kent, historians employed by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, using the microfilm reader in the Society's old, first ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two men pause to read parts lists(?) while mounting farm equipment parts to a large board. The parts are labeled with part numbers. The board was probably ... |
| Date: | 09 24 1947 |
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| Description: | Five women enjoying the library at Elizabeth Waters Dormitory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The portrait on the wall at the far end is of ... |
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| Description: | Mine, Mill & Smelters Union reading by a lake at Highlander Folk School. Will Thomas, second on the right, smoking a pipe. |
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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: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Martin and Eva Lauffer Deutschkron in a Berlin apartment shared with his parents. |
| Date: | 04 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Tim, 8, and Maureen, 6, listen quietly as their mother, Mrs. Mark Schaefer, reads a bedtime fairy tale at their home on Mineral Point Road. Mrs. Schaefer b... |
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