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| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin Historical Society Library Reading Room with people studying at tables. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Docked fishing boats of various sizes on the Hudson River. In the foreground, a man sits reading a newspaper on The North Star. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A woman sits on the grass reading next to a baby carriage in Fort Tyron Park. A brush-covered hill surmounted by a square tower rises in the background. |
| 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: | 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... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 04 01 1960 |
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| Description: | A fashionably dressed woman is sharing a book with an elderly woman. |
| 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 ... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Miss Lielle Geddis sitting in a rocking chair while reading an issue of "Country Gentleman" magazine in the living room of her home. |
| 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: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Men and women seated on benches along both walls of Kenneth Crook's Uranium Tunnel in Lone Rock. Note the uranium pads visitors hold in their laps or on th... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Isaiah Pyant, C.I.O. member, sitting in an armchair in his home reading the newspaper. |
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