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| Date: | 12 28 1981 |
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| Description: | Father reading "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain to his son. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A man dressed in a Smokey Bear costume is standing with two Milwaukee school children. A young girl is sitting at a desk, and a boy is standing and holding... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Patent attorney Charles L. Goss (seated), with clerk Arthur Muerless in the law offices of Winkler, Flanders, Smith, Bottum, & Vilas. |
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| Description: | Interior view of Upham residence. There are bookshelves along the back wall. A large, arched doorway leads into another room on the right, with a glass-fro... |
| 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: | 08 06 1963 |
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| Description: | A mother reads stories on her front steps to children from around the block. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Two women studying at a table at Milwaukee-Downer College. There is a tapestry on one wall and a vase of flowers and several books on the table. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Interior of library with large open reading area and long tables and Windsor style chairs, a two-story high ceiling, and a balcony around the second level.... |
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| Description: | An unknown man is posed on a couch holding a book that has been renamed "Goon History, Volume 3." |
| Date: | 02 1908 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Greene Memorial Library of Milwaukee-Downer College (now the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). The image is part of a 14-page pamphl... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Milwaukee Public Library, showing reading tables on the ground floor, and balconies and railings of two levels above. Large stone colu... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Milwaukee Public Library. Note below the image reads: " Milwaukee Public Library, Children's Room." There are reading tables and chair... |
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| Description: | A group of fun-loving friends pose together. In the front row, from left to right, are Harold Gauer, Marion Bloch, Victor Ehr, Mary Jo Vonier and Robert Bl... |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat sits in profile in a darkened room with a bookshelf behind his back. |
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| Description: | Robert Bloch, standing next to shelves of books, in front of a door covered with cardboard. He is wearing the gaudy costume of the King Geek for a photo sh... |
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| Description: | Robert Vail, dressed up as a Monk, subtly caresses the thigh of Angie Vail. Vais is smoking and wearing only a tuxedo jacket with a bow tie, hat, and shoes... |
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| Description: | "Formal" full-length portrait of Bedard in the Brady Street "Lab." Harold Gauer states she was, "...a sweet and reserved girl, with no pretense whatsoever.... |
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| Description: | Robert and Angie Vail pose with drinks at a nautical themed costume party. |
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| Description: | Interior view of a room in the Bradley house, including paintings, a globe, fine furniture, a bookcase, and a large, ornate mirror over the fireplace. |
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