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Harry L. French Drawing Room

Date: 03 21 1932
Description: Harry L. and Mazie French drawing room at 500 Farwell Drive.
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Mr. and Mrs. Holt

Date: 12 20 1930
Description: Informal portrait of Jerome C. and May Holt sitting in rockers in their living room at 1922 Madison Street.
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Quarters of the Historical Society

Date: 1880
Description: The Historical Society's early library and painting collections on display in the third Wisconsin State Capitol. This photograph was taken about 1880 befor...
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Lucian M. & Mary E. Hanks House, Library

Date: 07 20 1960
Description: First floor library in Lucian M. Hanks house, 525 Wisconsin Avenue.
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Living Room at 121 East Gilman Street

Date: 1948
Description: The living room of Fred and Annie Storer Brown's home (built 1888), 121 East Gilman Street. Annie Hepworth Storer Brown sits by the fireplace.
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Living Room at 116 East Gorham Street

Date: 1870
Description: Living room and downstairs bedroom of Timothy Brown II and Elizabeth Barnard Brown's house (built 1863), 116 East Gorham Street.
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Myra Cary

Date: 11 26 1947
Description: Portrait of Myra (Mrs. C.F.) Cary seated in a chair holding a book in her suite at the Park Hotel on her 86th birthday. She and her husband led the way in ...
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Getting Ready for Christmas

Date: 12 16 1947
Description: June McGovern is reading The Night Before Christmas to her children Diane, Jill and Jackie.
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Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 04 19 1948
Description: Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen of the Madison Visiting Nurse Service is advising Mrs. Chester B. Van Roo, the former Mary Lou Bell, on the care of her chil...
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Rasmus B. Anderson Family

Date: 1902
Description: Rasmus B. Anderson, his wife, and son in Anderson's study. Anderson's son holds the family dog.
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Rasmus B. Anderson in His Study

Date: 1902
Description: Rasmus B. Anderson seated in his study with his dog at his feet.
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Rasmus B. Anderson in His Study

Date: 1902
Description: Rasmus B. Anderson seated in his study and taking notes from a book.
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Winterble-Keys Farmhouse

Date: 02 03 1949
Description: The living room of the historic stone farmhouse at 901 University Bay Drive, recently renovated by Freda Keys Winterble. The house was named "Keystone" aft...
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Winfield Martin House

Date: 07 27 1949
Description: The living room of the Winfield Martin house, 2906 Lakeland Avenue (earlier address, 611 Elmside Boulevard), with built-in bookcases, cupboards ande a free...
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Edgewater Hotel Apartment

Date: 05 02 1949
Description: T.L. Graham reading in front of the floor to ceiling bookcases in the living room of his Edgewater Hotel apartment in Madison. The Edgewater Hotel is locat...
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Ruth B. Glassow House Interior

Date: 05 04 1949
Description: Interior view of the Professor Ruth B. Glassow house at 1635 Norman Way, showing a desk, chair, and a bookcase. The house had been a barn on the estate of ...
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Young Girl Reading

Date: 1898
Description: A young girl, Dorothy Hubbard, sits on a hardwood floor surrounded by pillows and reads a book. Next to the girl a large house plant grows in a pot, and a ...
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Sewell A. Peterson Home Interior

Date: 1898
Description: An interior view of the Wisconsin State Treasurer, Sewell A. Peterson, home on South Fairchild Street. The photograph is taken looking through the parlor a...
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Ernst Friedlander Family in Home

Date: 10 03 1951
Description: Portrait of Ernst and Marie Friedlander with their baby, Helen, in the living room of their home that Ernst designed. The room includes a stone wall firepl...
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Ernst Friedlander House

Date: 10 03 1951
Description: View of the dining room in the Ernst Friedlander house. The room features wood paneling, a dining table folded out of the wall, a view of the kitchen throu...

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