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Norwegian Community Picnic

Date: 1873
Description: Slightly elevated view of a large, multi-generational Norwegian family and friends gathered for a picnic celebration. In the foreground are picnic baskets ...
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McCormick Catalog Art

Date: 1890
Description: Lithograph illustration for the back cover of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a gentleman sitting in a Victorian parlor pointing to...
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Reverend A. Jacobsen and Family

Date: 1877
Description: Stereograph of Rev. A. Jacobson, family and visitors, Perry, Wis." from Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." Jacobson (1836-1910) immigrated to t...
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Classroom Reading

Date: 02 04 1957
Description: Classroom reading activities at school.
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Teacher and Students in Schoolyard

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Description: A teacher and students posing outdoors in the schoolyard of Shamrock School. The teacher is holding a reading chart and the children are holding books.
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Class at the State School for the Deaf

Date: 1893
Description: Male and female students read and practice math at the State School for the Deaf as a teacher looks on from the head of the class.
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Family in Wooded Yard

Date: 1873
Description: Family posing in a wooded yard. One man holds a wooden flute. Behind them is a Greek Revival house with a Madison Mutual insurance sign over the door.
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Group Posing by Organ

Date: 1899
Description: Group of people posing around an organ. A young woman in a white dress is sitting at the organ, facing left, with an older man behind her on the right. On ...
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Madison Exchange Club Christmas Fund Raising

Date: 12 20 1952
Description: A Madison Exchange Club member giving an Elsie comic book to three girls after they put money in an old bathtub as a Christmas donation to the Salvation Ar...
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Family in front of Hans Kjorstad Residence

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Description: View of group posing on the lawn in front of a two-story frame house. Four men in the background on the left are standing near two teams of horses; three m...
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Abraham Lincoln School, Day Care Group

Date: 06 27 1945
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...
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Convalescent Home for Children

Date: 01 30 1947
Description: Margaret (Mrs. Norman) Vea reads to Ernest Underwood, of Theresa, Lloyd Riley, and Gerald Tilley, Brooklyn, at the Convalescent Home for Children with rheu...
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Convalscent Home for Children

Date: 01 30 1947
Description: Listening to the story and music of the Nutcracker Suite are: Buddy Onash, Ft. Atkinson, Dennis Wenger, Madison, patients at the Convalescent Home for Chil...
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Woman Reading to Girls

Date: 03 04 1948
Description: Radio station WIBA Story Corner Lady, Jeanne Remus, reading a book to Ann and Kathy Taylor, daughters of Robert and Fannie Taylor, 1921 Keyes Avenue. The S...
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Washington School Hearing Clinic

Date: 07 15 1948
Description: Participants in a large-scale hearing clinic held at Washington School in Madison and sponsored by the University of Wisconsin departments of speech and ed...
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Girl Sitting on Woman's Lap

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Description: A young girl pages through a book while sitting on a woman's lap. Another woman wearing gloves and a fur coat hands the sitting girl a book while another g...
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Rabbi Max A. Lipshitz and Students of the Madison Talmud Torah

Date: 09 23 1948
Description: Group portrait of Rabbi Max A. Lipshitz and young students of the Madison Talmud Torah. The children are preparing to conduct their own junior congregation...
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Mrs. J. Riley (Anne) Best and Her Two Children

Date: 01 04 1949
Description: Mrs. J. Riley (Anne) Best, Eagle Heights apartments, reading a book to her two children, Sally 6, and Steven, 4. The family is new to the area, having move...
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Portrait of Woman and Girl

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Description: A seated woman holds a book in her lap while a young girl stands behind her, both posing for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop.
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Family in Dining Room

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Description: A family is posed in a dining room with a woman seated and holding a small child. A man is seated at a desk in the corner, with a young girl standing nearb...

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