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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Norwegian family posing with their household possessions, in front of their home. The man dressed in military uniform is a Civil War veteran. Madison, Wisc... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Beatrice C. Gesell and Gerhard Gesell, Jr. play out-of-doors. While mother watches the baby sits on a pillow playing with a volume titled "Educational Pro... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Three children reading books near a bookmobile parked in a suburban neighborhood. The bookmobile was an International Loadstar 1600. |
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| Description: | Man with a book in his hand entering the rear of International Metro LM series delivery truck owned and operated by the First Regional Library of Mississip... |
| Date: | 08 06 1963 |
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| Description: | A mother reads stories on her front steps to children from around the block. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Woman reading the bible outdoors while seated in a chair. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family is gathered around table for coffee with a frame house behind that has a sewing machine on its porch, and a lightning rod on the roof. A framed pi... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Halle Steensland and his wife Sophia pose with their five children (left to right: Morten, Henry, Edward, Halbert and Helen) in front of their home in Mapl... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Halle Steensland and his wife Sophia pose with their five children at the family home, later located at 733 Lakewood Boulevard, Village of Maple Bluff. Fro... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | An International Auto Wagon with a rear compartment containing shelves of books is parked outside a library. A man is sitting in the driver's seat, and a ... |
| Date: | 03 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Display window at Speth's Clothing Store, 222 State Street, featuring Wembley ties and Alice in Wonderland characters. |
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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... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State College (later renamed the University of Wisconsin-Platteville). The Student Union is in final stages of construction, and in the foregroun... |
| Date: | 03 13 1947 |
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| Description: | Mrs. F.I. (Betty Neef) Sanna and her three children, Susan (3), David (6), and Kathryn (5), are new residents of Maple Bluff, having moved from Minneapolis... |
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| Description: | Woman with books posed standing on a board sidewalk, possibly in front of the William T. Price home. |
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| Description: | View of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin's Library Reading Room from the mezzanine. |
| 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 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 ... |
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| Description: | An outdoor portrait of a young man standing near a porch. He is resting his hand on a book on a table. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Otto G. Ansorge sits in his home on Lake Avenue and reads. Ansorge was a jeweler and band director in Winneconne. |
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