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| Date: | 12 02 1948 |
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| Description: | Gifts of dishes, radio-phonograph, wire recorder, toys and books are enjoyed by children at Lapham School. Roundy's Fun Fund provided these and more items ... |
| Date: | 04 1964 |
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| Description: | Thirteen-year-old student John "Butch" Quirk's hands turn the pages of a book. The original magazine caption reads: "School Boy: 'Butch' Quirk is a bright ... |
| Date: | 01 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. J. Riley (Anne) Best, Eagle Heights apartments, reading a book to her two children, Sally 6, and Steven, 4. The family is new to the area, having move... |
| Date: | 01 18 1949 |
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| Description: | Four foreign students at Madison Vocational and Adult Education School learning English from Margery N. Stewart. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Girl standing next to "Sifting and Winnowing" memorial plaque at the entrance to Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison ca... |
| Date: | 02 03 1949 |
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| Description: | The living room of the historic stone farmhouse at 901 University Bay Drive, recently renovated by Freda Keys Winterble. The house was named "Keystone" aft... |
| Date: | 02 15 1949 |
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| Description: | Children at play while their mothers mended clothes for the Quaker relief project on a regular Tuesday session at the home of Mrs. Hilton E. (Lillian) Hann... |
| Date: | 02 15 1949 |
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| Description: | Doris Peterson of Dodgeville, and Niles Ernst of Green Bay, look over the display of pocket editions of books operated by John C. Leonard at the Union Bus ... |
| Date: | 02 21 1949 |
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| Description: | Diana Dean, Maple Bluff, a student at Wisconsin High School, modeling a corded cotton dress perfect for a high school girl. |
| Date: | 04 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Phoebe Hayes, librarian for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and representative from the Madison Feder... |
| Date: | 04 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Tim, 8, and Maureen, 6, listen quietly as their mother, Mrs. Mark Schaefer, reads a bedtime fairy tale at their home on Mineral Point Road. Mrs. Schaefer b... |
| Date: | 07 27 1949 |
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| Description: | The living room of the Winfield Martin house, 2906 Lakeland Avenue (earlier address, 611 Elmside Boulevard), with built-in bookcases, cupboards ande a free... |
| Date: | 04 25 1949 |
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| Description: | Two-year-old James William Geisler, the son of Mr. & Mrs. James Geisler of 1632 Monroe Street, sits at a piano for a portrait taken for National Baby Week. |
| Date: | 02 17 1949 |
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| Description: | A teacher, probably Mrs. Regina Barnhart at Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries, giving a shorthand test to two female students. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Cover art of a pamphlet called "Religious and Patriotic Ideals of the Ku Klux Klan" (KKK), author W. C. (Walter Carl) Wright, featuring an image of the Ame... |
| Date: | 05 02 1949 |
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| Description: | T.L. Graham reading in front of the floor to ceiling bookcases in the living room of his Edgewater Hotel apartment in Madison. The Edgewater Hotel is locat... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Room with six tables containing what appears to be an informational display of literature created by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Depar... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Scrap book of advertising literature for International trucks and other machinery. The scrap book, or sample book, was created by the company's Advertising... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A man reads in a chair, with his back to the camera. His book rests on a table near a lamp with a decorated shade. |
| Date: | 07 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Ginny Hall, a West High School senior, has a summer job caring for Sharon and Sandra Sinn, the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Sinn, 3405 Blackhawk Dr... |
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