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| Date: | 12 28 1981 |
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| Description: | Father reading "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain to his son. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A young child examines a children's book with her grandmother. |
| 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: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Woman sitting in a chair reading, with one child on a rocking horse and another child in a high chair. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | This is identified as the Jacob Larsen farm, but pictured are Ole Ashburn and his second wife seated in the yard with a table between them. The frame house... |
| Date: | 1847 |
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| Description: | A woman sits at a table reading while apparently neglecting her whole family. |
| Date: | 12 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Signe and Peder Sletteland, daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. Perry A. Sletteland, 2150 Chadbourne Avenue, looking at a catalog. She is a student at Skidmor... |
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| Description: | A family reading the newspaper "Union Farmer" together. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | F.D. Eyerley sits with his wife and his daughter on the front stoop of their home on West Johnson Street. They are reading from a book. A small, wicker roc... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Four members of the Bailey family, two men and two women, stand and sit around a small table in front of a fireplace. There is a music stand below the wind... |
| Date: | 03 31 1908 |
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| Description: | Twins Edgar and Jennie Krueger sitting on the steps of a porch reading a book together. They are nine-years-old. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Abraham Lincoln and family. The President is reading to his son Thomas (Tad) with Mary Todd seated at his side and son Robert standing behind t... |
| Date: | 03 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Roland and Winnie Delameter sitting in their living room while reading to their children, Sandra, age 6 years, left, and Ronalee, age 4 & 1/2 years. Roland... |
| Date: | 07 1903 |
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| Description: | Mary Krueger knitting in a rocking chair in the yard while her grandchildren are sitting on the ground beside her. Jennie Krueger is sitting to her right, ... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of August Krueger sitting in a wicker rocking chair supporting an open book on his lap, while Mary and Sarah Krueger are standing behind h... |
| Date: | 08 04 1961 |
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| Description: | David Saalsaa, age 9, studies while his Uncle Oscar, left, and father, Edward relax and read in their shared living room. The room has a Mid Century curvin... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Professor William F. Allen seated and writing at a desk in the study of his home at 228 Langdon St. His son Will is seated in a chair and reading. A large ... |
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| Description: | A mother and her daughter spend a day reading and relaxing in the U.W. Arboretum Longenecker Horticultural Gardens under a flowering tree. |
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