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| 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... |
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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: | 04 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Reverend George E. Hunt, age 80, interim pastor at Christ Presbyterian Church. |
| Date: | 04 24 1945 |
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| Description: | Carrie King (Mrs. F.H. King), 88, of 426 University Farm Place, who came to Madison with her husband, a professor of Agricultual Physics, in 1888. Mrs. Kin... |
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| Description: | A seated elderly woman holding a book on her lap poses for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. |
| Date: | 04 01 1960 |
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| Description: | A fashionably dressed woman is sharing a book with an elderly woman. |
| Date: | 03 02 2001 |
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| Description: | "Eve, is our waitress at Jeff's on Rugby in Oshkosh." Note the book at the head of the table. It is volume C of the fish fry collection. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Portrait of John Muir. He is seated and is reading a book. |
| Date: | 03 14 2008 |
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| Description: | "Nick was our waiter at the American Legion in Horicon." From left to right; Ralph "Buddy" Ruecker, Carl Bernhard, Nick, and Shirley Widmer. An album of th... |
| Date: | 07 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Elizabeth Govin on her 90th birthday. She is sitting in a chair holding a book. |
| Date: | 10 1980 |
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| Description: | "The candid camera catches a fleeting glimpse of Ed Radke as he worships at St. Peter's Lutheran Church. Ed will celebrate his 94th birthday on Feb. 4, 19... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Three women, one holding a child, are posing sitting in chairs in the yard of a frame house, along with a woman holding an infant, three girls, and one boy... |
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| Description: | Two portraits of an elderly man with a beard posing sitting with a Farmer's Almanac in his coat pocket. Behind him is a dropcloth for a backdrop. |
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| Description: | Sixteenth plate ferrotype/tintype of an old woman. She is seated with her hands in her lap and is holding a book. She is wearing a white bonnet tied with a... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Portrait of elderly woman sitting in a chair, holding a book in her lap. |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an elderly European American woman posed sitting in a large, wooden chair. She is holding a b... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of eight members of the Thwaites family. Three of the women are sitting, and one has a young boy sitting in her lap. Two men, a woma... |
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| Description: | Portrait of George Squier seated outdoors in a wicker chair and holding a book in his lap. |
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| Description: | Waist-up seated portrait of Judge Arthur Loomis Sanborn. |
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