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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A young child examines a children's book with her grandmother. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Adolescent schoolgirl Miss Genivieve Graves seems to be daydreaming at her school desk. |
| Date: | 09 26 1967 |
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| Description: | Young children listen to a story through earphones as a teacher's aid looks on. |
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| Description: | An engraving of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Philip Livingston, and Roger Sherman, drafters of the Declaration of Independence gathered... |
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| Description: | Factory workers reading in the Deering Works Club library. A librarian appears to be checking books in and out to a line of employees. |
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| Description: | Office(?) workers reading in the library at the Deering Works Club. In the background the librarian (seated at desk) appears to be checking books in and ou... |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait engraving of George Washington seated with books and saber, from a painting by Chappel. |
| 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: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Office of the State Board of Control, Wisconsin Reformatory, Charitable and Penal Institutions in the third Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| 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... |
| 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. The view shows the Reference Room, Information Desk, one librarian and two patrons. |
| 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 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: | 06 16 1932 |
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| Description: | Harry & Ada Moseley's book-lined living room with fireplace, 616 N. Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 03 24 1932 |
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| Description: | Living room at Chester and Louise Snell house, 822 Miami Pass, Nakoma. |
| Date: | 03 31 1932 |
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| Description: | Library in Dr. Bleyer residence, 423 N. Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 03 21 1932 |
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| Description: | Harry L. and Mazie French drawing room at 500 Farwell Drive. |
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