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| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Ellen Holt is reading a book while sitting in a rocking chair on the porch. She is wearing a jacket and skirt. Caption reads: "Ellen Holt." |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | William Pettigrew, who was Foreman at Camp Four beginning in 1885, is reading a hard cover book on the porch of the Ark cottage while sitting on a striped ... |
| Date: | 08 20 1913 |
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| Description: | I.P. Rumsey is reading a book while lying in the hammock on the porch at Island Lodge. A pillow is tucked under his head. He is dressed in a long sleeved s... |
| Date: | 11 21 1957 |
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| Description: | The three daughters of Mr. and Mrs. William Wills, 805 Pulley Drive, have their tonsils removed on the same day at St. Mary's Hospital. Mrs. Wills is readi... |
| Date: | 12 13 1957 |
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| Description: | At the typewriter is Marie Teresa Rios Versace, mother of five children. At her side, daughter Tracy is reading a book. Versace has published her first boo... |
| Date: | 01 03 1958 |
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| Description: | Mary Jo Oxnem, St. Marys Hospital School of Nursing student nurse (right) enjoying off-duty time by reading newspaper comics with roommate Rosalie Studer. ... |
| Date: | 01 16 1959 |
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| Description: | Scene at the U.W. Memorial Library crowded with students studying, including one sleeping with his head resting on the table. Coats hanging in coat racks a... |
| Date: | 02 02 1958 |
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| Description: | Attorney James E. Doyle, Sr. looking at a big picture book with his young daughter, Anne. |
| Date: | 03 25 1958 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Charles M. Overby enjoying a quiet afternoon as her two daughters Solveig (3 1/2) and Kim (1) take a nap in their U.W. Eagle Heights apartment. Mr. Ov... |
| Date: | 03 25 1958 |
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| Description: | Mr. Kenneth C. Hoedt, graduate student manager of the U.W. Eagle Heights apartments, studies for his Ph.D. in personnel and guidance. Mr. Hoedt earned his ... |
| Date: | 04 17 1958 |
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| Description: | David Ottenson, a third-year medical student from Superior, studies at home. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View across water towards members of the Reading Circle, including one woman and six children. The "H," made of birch branches, marks the location as being... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Barbara and Herbert E. Brumder sitting and reading on a rustic bench on a flagstone patio at their summer house on Pine lake. A dog is sleeping under the b... |
| Date: | 02 02 1959 |
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| Description: | Madison television personality Beverly Stark reading to her two children, Randy and Shelley, at home where she does a good share of her professional work. |
| Date: | 02 11 1959 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Gerald (Christina) Lorge, wife of Sen. Gerald Lorge (R-Bear Creek), is shown reading and sipping coffee while waiting for her husband, who is in a leg... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Philip George Brumder reading a magazine in the back seat of a car, while leaning against the side with his feet up on the seat. He is wearing a cap and ha... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Lawrence Sherman sitting in a chair by the window, reading the paper in his farm kitchen. On the left is a Jungers Model E stove with kettles and a teapot.... |
| Date: | 04 16 1959 |
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| Description: | Craig Penrith studies in the front seat of his car with the top rolled down and his shoes off in Vilas Park. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | One of a group of images under the headline: "Matanuska Valley Colonists Wait for Mail, Carry Water, Haul Logs." Original caption reads: "The colonists fin... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of mother (Lucy Rumsey Holt) and daughter (Eleanor Holt). Looking up, Eleanor Holt appears to be asking her mother to read her a story. T... |
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