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| 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: | 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: | 10 16 1934 |
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| Description: | Randall School, 10 N. Spooner Street. There are children sitting in chairs reading from the blackboard, led by a student holding a pointer. Photograph take... |
| Date: | 09 23 1932 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Kate Schmedeman, Mayor Albert G. Schmedeman's wife, sitting in a chair beside a fireplace reading a book in her home, 504 Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 08 19 1931 |
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| Description: | Three women of "The Singing Sinners," a vaudeville act at the Orpheum Theater, are reading "The Capitol Times" serial story "Guilty Lips," in their dressin... |
| Date: | 03 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Martha Hardin reading to Janet Brahn and Betty Thomsen at the nursery school established on the third floor of the home of University president, Charles A.... |
| Date: | 10 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Eighty-five-year-old Mrs. C.A. Green, reading the Wisconsin State Journal during a stay with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Glen C. (Flor... |
| 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Mr. Edward Schildhauer relaxes in a rocking chair with his feet on a desk. He is reading a newspaper. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Halle Steensland poses in his lavishly decorated library at his house on 315 North Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A carefully posed scene of a man, woman, and girl at home. The girl sits with a cat on her lap. The man, in a wicker rocker, reads the "Editorial Section" ... |
| Date: | 12 14 1953 |
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| Description: | Ada Moseley of 616 North Carroll Street demonstrates a Christmas custom by sitting near a fireplace reading "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Clara Middleton poses seated in a chair, reading. She is wearing a narrow fur stole over her shoulder. |
| 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: | 02 14 1956 |
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| Description: | Hazel Hargrove, freshman at Central High School, reads to her blind neighbor, Mrs. L.E. Grandison, as a Lenten expression of concern for others. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | First page of an album kept by Neighborhood House, with individual images of head resident Gay Braxton, second resident Mary Lee Griggs, and two exterior v... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Two views of the interior of the La Follette, Harper, Roe & Zimmerman law office. Mr. Zimmerman is sitting in his inner office; the lady in the foreground ... |
| Date: | 09 29 1953 |
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| Description: | Tom Morrow reading a magazine while getting a haircut by barber Juell Solberg at the Union Bus Station barbershop. |
| Date: | 01 28 1954 |
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| Description: | A man is reading a book while sitting in a chair at the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street. |
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