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Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | Four Madison authors are shown together holding books they have written. Seated are Francis F. Bowman and Prof. William Hesseltine. Standing are Miss Emil... |
Date: | 11 16 1948 |
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Description: | "Books Tell the Story" display at Wisconsin High School as part of the observance of National Book Week. Students looking at display are, left to right: Ph... |
Date: | 11 09 1948 |
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Description: | Four parents are shown admiring twelve books. They are celebrating National Book Week which is co-sponsored by their group, the Madison Council of Parents ... |
Date: | 11 09 1948 |
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Description: | Six children preview new books and historical dolls. Left to right they are: James Scrivner, Paul Ives, Shirley Kleven, Carolyn Watzke, Judy Kay Lemon and ... |
Date: | 12 02 1948 |
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Description: | Gifts of dishes, radio-phonograph, wire recorder, toys and books are enjoyed by children at Lapham School. Roundy's Fun Fund provided these and more items ... |
Date: | 01 04 1949 |
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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... |
Date: | 01 18 1949 |
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Description: | Four foreign students at Madison Vocational and Adult Education School learning English from Margery N. Stewart. |
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Description: | Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait of two unidentified girls on the occasion of their First Communion. They are standing and wearing wh... |
Date: | 1947 |
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Description: | Girl standing next to "Sifting and Winnowing" memorial plaque at the entrance to Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison ca... |
Date: | 02 03 1949 |
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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... |
Date: | 02 15 1949 |
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Description: | Children at play while their mothers mended clothes for the Quaker relief project on a regular Tuesday session at the home of Mrs. Hilton E. (Lillian) Hann... |
Date: | 02 15 1949 |
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Description: | Doris Peterson of Dodgeville, and Niles Ernst of Green Bay, look over the display of pocket editions of books operated by John C. Leonard at the Union Bus ... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison. The building is now Music Hall. Two statues are in a stained glass window alcove, and portraits line the second floor balc... |
Date: | 02 21 1949 |
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Description: | Diana Dean, Maple Bluff, a student at Wisconsin High School, modeling a corded cotton dress perfect for a high school girl. |
Date: | 04 05 1949 |
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Description: | Portrait of Phoebe Hayes, librarian for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and representative from the Madison Feder... |
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: | 07 27 1949 |
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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... |
Date: | 04 25 1949 |
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Description: | Two-year-old James William Geisler, the son of Mr. & Mrs. James Geisler of 1632 Monroe Street, sits at a piano for a portrait taken for National Baby Week. |
Date: | 02 17 1949 |
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Description: | A teacher, probably Mrs. Regina Barnhart at Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries, giving a shorthand test to two female students. |
Date: | 05 02 1949 |
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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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