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Elderly Woman Seated in front of Bookcase

Date: 05 1946
Description: Portrait of an unknown elderly woman seated in front of a bookcase.
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Four Women in Front of a Building

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Description: Four women standing in front of a building. Above them is a railing. One of the women is holding a couple of books in her hands and under her arm.
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Elderly Woman with a Book

Date: 1910
Description: Portrait of elderly woman sitting in a chair, holding a book in her lap.
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Women in a Parlour

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Description: Four women are posing sitting in a parlor in front of an organ. One of the women is sitting on the floor holding a kitten.
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Three Women Posing on Window Sill

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Description: Outdoor view of three young women sitting windowsills of two open windows. The woman on the left is sitting in profile facing the two women in the windowsi...
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Attorneys Dorothy Baldwin and Emily Dodge

Date: 11 01 1945
Description: Madison attorneys Dorothy Baldwin and Emily Dodge, who organized what is believed to be the only all-woman law firm in Wisconsin.
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Woman with Book of Madison Men and Women in Service

Date: 04 07 1945
Description: Barbara Groves searches through a book of clippings of Madison men and women in service. The stories were published in the "Wisconsin State Journal" and t...
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Woman in a Wheelchair

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Description: Portrait of a woman sitting in a wheelchair indoors.
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Olive Davis and Two Other Women

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Description: Indoor portrait of three European American women posing sitting in front of a organ. Several portraits are hanging on the wall. One woman is sitting in a c...
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Wonderful World of Paperback Books

Date: 03 25 1959
Description: An aisle of paperback books in a Madison bookstore. Two women are standing in the aisle.
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Librarian with Library Books

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Description: Woman, probably a librarian, paging through a book from a crate stamped "Wisconsin Free Library Commission, Madison, Wis." Several other books are stacked ...
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Woman Reading a Book on Birds

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Description: A woman is sitting on a log outdoors. She is holding binoculars in her left hand, and is reading a bird identification book.
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Two Women Reading a Book

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of two women sitting in front of a painted backdrop sharing a book. Both women are wearing hair combs. One woman is looking at ...
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Man and Woman Seated at Table

Date: 11 17 1947
Description: A man and woman seated at a table in front of bookshelves.
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Reading Braille

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Description: A woman in dark glasses, who is a resident of Dane County Hospital and Home, reads a book in Braille as her therapist looks on.
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Woman Wearing a Bonnet and Holding Book

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Description: Full-length portrait of an older woman sitting in a chair with a lace cloth on the back. The women is wearing a bonnet and is holding a book in her lap. A ...
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Martha Lomas and Esther

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Description: Full-length ferrotype/tintype of Martha and Esther Lomas from Lancaster, Wisconsin, in front of a painted backdrop. One of the women is standing with her l...
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Interior Portrait of Two Women

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Description: Portrait of two women posing sitting in front of a door.
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Birdwatching

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Description: A woman is sitting in the grass next to a tree trunk. She is holding a pair of binoculars in her hands, and has a book Birds of North America lying ...
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Betimes Betsy Bethinks On The Bible

Date: 1905
Description: Woman reading the bible outdoors while seated in a chair.

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