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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Man lounging against a full bookcase in an office area at McCormick Works in Chicago. A second man can just be seen behind the bookcase. A large dark room ... |
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| Description: | View of group posing on the lawn in front of a two-story frame house. Four men in the background on the left are standing near two teams of horses; three m... |
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| Description: | A young girl pages through a book while sitting on a woman's lap. Another woman wearing gloves and a fur coat hands the sitting girl a book while another g... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Madison Public Library, circulation desk. Cardboard backing reads: "1913, Main Loan Desk." A large group of women in winter coats and ... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A group of five girls holding school books pose for a portrait in front of a building on Coney Island. |
| Date: | 04 01 1960 |
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| Description: | A fashionably dressed woman is sharing a book with an elderly woman. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Eagle Corners School, a one-room schoolhouse in Richland County. The students are all seated at desks and most are reading. Their coats ha... |
| Date: | 02 28 1978 |
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| Description: | "Library. Situated above the firehouse. Librarians Nancy Koll and Judy Scheirer estimate that they have about 5,000 books and periodicals." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of an man sitting in an electric car by Rumsey, founded in 1895. A Rumsey Electric Company Limited General Catalog is depicted alongside the vehicle. |
| Date: | 12 08 1954 |
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| Description: | Four girls singing while looking down at their caroling books and holding candles and dressed for the outdoors. They are Diane Gensichen, Sally Tisdale, Su... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Two women select books from the opened back of a traveling branch library in a truck parked on a street. |
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| Description: | Seated carte-de-visite vignetted portrait of Pastor C.B. Willerup. In 1851, he helped establish the first Norwegian – Danish Methodist church in Cambridge,... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Portrait of William Krueger holding a book in his lap and holding a pair of eyeglasses. Behind him, a long pipe is resting against a table on which a box i... |
| Date: | 09 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Three women are attending an autographing tea at Graham's Book and Stationary Store, 3238 University Avenue. They are, left to right: Helen Fairchild, Hele... |
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| Description: | One boy reads a book to a group of boys who are seated or lying in front of him by a fireplace. A sign on the mantel reads, "Silence". Boy Scout insignia a... |
| Date: | 03 21 1901 |
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| Description: | Supper menu from the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company, Bremen, with an illustration of people on the top d... |
| Date: | 01 1969 |
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| Description: | A photo shoot for David R. Obey's first campaign for Congress picturing him as assistant majority leader with Majority Leader Bob Huber (partially obscured... |
| Date: | 05 16 1968 |
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| Description: | Wilbur Cohen raises his left hand as he is sworn in as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Social Security was included in his responsibilities as ... |
| 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 ... |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of a very large group of unidentified men, women, and children posing standing in front of a wooden building. |
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