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| Description: | A scrapbook page containing five photographs of John R. Commons and farm labor. The handwriting in the center reads: "Dale Farm with AL and Windy." Caption... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Two men sitting in the stands review the Milwaukee Braves official program during a game. |
| Date: | 11 20 1934 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin Pres. Glenn Frank sitting in a swivel chair reading: "The open door at the home." |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for McCormick harvesting machines. The cover features an illustration of an old man wearing a hat, smoking a pipe and readi... |
| Date: | 06 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Howard A. Endres reading his furlough papers at the end of World War II, at Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Log cabin known as the "haunted house" on Rock Island, remodeled by Chester Thordarson. There are three people sitting on the porch. |
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| Description: | Catherine Winston, a staff member at the Highlander Folk School, reading a book and smoking a cigarette. |
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| Description: | Mine, Mill & Smelters Union reading by a lake at Highlander Folk School. Will Thomas, second on the right, smoking a pipe. |
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| Description: | Two CIO students reading books outside at Highlander Folk School. One book is titled, "The CIO and World Affairs". |
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| Description: | Two men playing checkers, while another reads a journal, taking a break from a Civil Rights Workshop at Highlander Folk School. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | A man holding a cigar is sitting at a desk looking at an International Harvester trucks booklet. A copy of International Trail magazine is on the de... |
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| Description: | Two men smoking cigars, one in the process of lighting his while reading a newspaper, possibly the "Union Farmer". |
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| Description: | A family reading the newspaper "Union Farmer" together. |
| Date: | 10 01 1938 |
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| Description: | J. Robert Taylor cleaning a furnace. He has a broom and a small brush in hand, a pipe in his mouth, and a dirty rag placed on his head. He is reading a doc... |
| Date: | 10 01 1938 |
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| Description: | Taylor is relaxing, sitting in a chair tilted back, and smoking his pipe and reading his paper in front of an open heater. A kerchief is covering his head.... |
| 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: | 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Forest Middleton, wearing a visor and moccassins, sits at a roll top desk. He holds an open book and is smoking a pipe. There are two oil lamps on the desk... |
| Date: | 06 1942 |
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| Description: | A member of the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta relaxing in his bunk while reading a book in Spanish and smoking a cigarette. The man is on ... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Three men, one woman and one child sit on lawn chairs and at a picnic table outside under the trees at Log Cabin Lodge on Lake Millicent. Three cabins are... |
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