Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Norwegian family posing with their household possessions, in front of their home. The man dressed in military uniform is a Civil War veteran. Madison, Wisc... |
Date: | 1938 |
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Description: | Young children reading at the library. A librarian works near the circulation desk in the background. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seating cap... |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view of a large, multi-generational Norwegian family and friends gathered for a picnic celebration. In the foreground are picnic baskets ... |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | View from front of classroom of children sitting at desks at the Mendota Beach School. |
Date: | 1936 |
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Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife Olgivanna, seated together reading in a bedroom at Taliesin. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring Green, Wisconsin... |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | Beatrice C. Gesell and Gerhard Gesell, Jr. play out-of-doors. While mother watches the baby sits on a pillow playing with a volume titled "Educational Pro... |
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Description: | A group of young students seated in their classroom holding books as the teacher stands at the back of the room. The title of the book is "The Progressive ... |
Date: | 1914 |
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Description: | Photographer Herman Taylor's children sit at a little table in front of the hearth in the library. |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Dr. Joseph Smith reads at his desk in his office in the Wisconsin Valley Trust Building. |
Date: | 1973 |
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Description: | John Muir's desk clock. The clock lighted his lamp and fire and opened the right book for him to study. At the end of half an hour it changed the book. The... |
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Description: | A stonecutter, a cooper or smith (identified by the tools of their trade) and a girl with a pail are standing on the left in contrast to a group of ladies ... |
Date: | 1916 |
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Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Simon Overby at home in their parlor with books, family portraits, and an organ with sheet music. Mr. Overby sits in a chair with a cane and a... |
Date: | 11 15 1945 |
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Description: | Interior of Madison Public Library, 206 North Carroll Street, showing Reading Room, magazine display shelves and history book section. |
Date: | 03 04 1937 |
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Description: | Living room in Coombs house, Lakewood. |
Date: | 10 14 1936 |
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Description: | Dr. Louise Phelps Kellogg sitting at her desk. Kellogg was an historian at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. |
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: | 08 24 1934 |
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Description: | Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist. |
Date: | 11 16 1932 |
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Description: | University League benefit bridge tea at University of Wisconsin Pres. Glenn Frank's home, 130 N. Prospect Avenue, junior division in the President's librar... |
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: | 06 16 1932 |
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Description: | Harry & Ada Moseley's book-lined living room with fireplace, 616 N. Carroll Street. |
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