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| Date: | 08 06 1963 |
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| Description: | A mother reads stories on her front steps to children from around the block. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Historian Emma Helen Blair, who supervised the Historical Society's maps and manuscripts collection during the 1890s and who aided the editorial projects o... |
| Date: | 02 26 1963 |
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| Description: | Four students sit around one flip-top desk to read and work math problems. |
| Date: | 09 02 1965 |
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| Description: | Avant garde patrons smoke and listen to poets, singers and guitarists. |
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| Description: | A teacher and students posing outdoors in the schoolyard of Shamrock School. The teacher is holding a reading chart and the children are holding books. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A woman plays the organ, while two women, wearing hats, and three men, gather behind her, holding song books. They are enclosed by a low, circular railing;... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Woman reading the bible outdoors while seated in a chair. |
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| Description: | A family sitting in the farmyard around a table with a simple cloth, books and a vase of flowers. A frame house with three chimneys and shuttered windows i... |
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| Description: | The Newhouse family sitting around a table under trees with a book, goblets, a vase of flowers, a pitcher, a stereoscope and a cloth on the table in front ... |
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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 ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Male and female students read and practice math at the State School for the Deaf as a teacher looks on from the head of the class. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Records room at the State Public School. Volumes of "analyzed accounts" are seen in the foreground, and small drawers line the right wall. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Young man studying at a table in the library stacks of the Wisconsin Historical Society library. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A family is gathered around a table loaded with books and potted plants. Children sit on soap boxes in front, including a girl with a doll. The frame house... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Three men and two women sit around a table in a yard. Behind them is a picket fence and a wood frame house. One woman holds a fan, another a book. One man ... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | The Neils Hallanger family is posed in their yard around a table piled with books. One lady is posed with a parasol and servant women sit on a sofa in the ... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | The Neils Hallanger family is gathered in their yard around a table with books on it and a love seat behind. The frame house has a bay window and a stone f... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | The P. Gunhouse family is posed around a table in their yard. The baby sits in a high chair and the table is covered with books and flowers. The L-shaped f... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A family is seated around a table upon which are books and flowers. Behind them is a frame house with a person sitting on its porch. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A large family group and a dog are posed around a table that has large books on it. The frame house behind them has a sway in its roof. A well with a wood ... |
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