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| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Office workers at desks in International Harvester's Hamburg branch house in Germany. |
| Date: | 07 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Ginny Hall, a West High School senior, has a summer job caring for Sharon and Sandra Sinn, the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Sinn, 3405 Blackhawk Dr... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A man sitting in an armchair with his feet propped on a bed, is reading an International sales-engineering bulletin and smoking a pipe. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A librarian checks out a book to a young girl, while other children sit at tables reading in the background. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seat... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A group of children sit at tables in a library reading books and magazines while a librarian looks on from her circulation desk. When it opened in 1938, th... |
| Date: | 06 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Ten Madison school children, all fourth through sixth graders, sit with librarian Mrs. E.J. Levenick in the Madison Free Library children's reading room. T... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Isaiah Pyant, C.I.O. member, sitting in an armchair in his home reading the newspaper. |
| Date: | 03 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Frank J. Vaughn reads to 6-year-old Kenneth Lemmer, Jr. and 5-year-old Ann Lemmer while the children's grandmother, Kath B. Morrissey, works on an afg... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A man is reading a booklet advertising the Albaugh-Dover square turn farm tractor. The text reads: "The Farm Tractor You Have Waited For is Here. A One Man... |
| Date: | 03 01 1957 |
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| Description: | Ann Griffith reads to Jamie Lou, age 4, and Terry, 1 year, daughters of Patrick and Ardus Stone. Ann Griffith is participating in the University of Wiscons... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Several truck drivers relaxing in an American Oil Company truck stop lounge. Two men in the foreground are working on paperwork. |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Students protesting the Kuomintang's authoritarian control of Taiwan on Library Mall at the Calvary Lutheran Chapel. In the foreground a man is leaning aga... |
| Date: | 09 29 1953 |
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| Description: | Tom Morrow reading a magazine while getting a haircut by barber Juell Solberg at the Union Bus Station barbershop. |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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.... |
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