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| Date: | 12 28 1928 |
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| Description: | A little girl posing in a living room with a Christmas tree, toys, and a doll she got for Christmas. |
| Date: | 12 14 1953 |
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| Description: | Ada Moseley of 616 North Carroll Street demonstrates a Christmas custom by sitting near a fireplace reading "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey with pre-schoolers and their teacher at Ellis School, a program supported in part by Title I federal funding. Throughou... |
| Date: | 04 1991 |
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| Description: | Man watching a program on a large television. In front of him is a TV tray. There is a VCR on top of the television. Although unidentified it is likely tha... |
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| Description: | Color postcard of a female telephone operator at an 1890s era switchboard. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a European American woman posed sitting and holding a book in her lap entitled "Knowledge is Safety." She... |
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| Description: | Indoor portrait of three European American women posing sitting in front of a organ. Several portraits are hanging on the wall. One woman is sitting in a c... |
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| Description: | Indoor group portrait of five European American woman posing sitting and standing, and a European American man posing sitting around a large table. The man... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of an unknown women standing in a doorway. The tall doorway has a drape on a pole just underneath a transom window or screen. A coat i... |
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| Description: | Portrait of two women posing sitting in front of a door. |
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| Description: | Indoor portrait of a woman posing sitting on a sofa. She is wearing a dark-colored skirt and light-colored blouse, near a pillow that reads: "Reveries of a... |
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| Description: | Interior portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Clint Smith. He is seated on a fainting couch on the left, and she is sitting in a chair behind him on the right. There i... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A young woman, Jessie Underwood, reclining supported on one elbow on a fur rug in front of a piano. In front of her lying on the rug is a cat. Light comes ... |
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| Description: | Ferrotype/tintype of unidentified young girl. Full-length portrait, facing front. She is standing on a carpet, with her left forearm resting on a cloth-cov... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Sid sitting in an armchair at his home at 237 Wabesa Street, wearing a pair of socks. He has a cigar in his mouth. Behind Sid is a bookshelf. |
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| Description: | Phillip and Isabel Bacon La Follette sitting in comfortable chairs in their living room at home. A large dog, perhaps a Chow, is lying on the rug in front ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Forest Middleton standing beside a bookcase holding a pipe. He is wearing a suit and tie. There are Japanese figurines on the top of the bookcase and a Jap... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of librarian Daniel S. Durrie seated in the two-story high gallery that the Historical Society occupied in the old South Wing of the Wisconsin ... |
| Date: | 05 1936 |
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| Description: | Herbert E. Brumder, left, and an unidentified young man are sitting and reading in a dormitory parlor. Coats are hanging on the back of a door at center. T... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | An available light, interior view of two girls, identified on the negative envelope as Ella and Thresa [sic] Alson, flanking a small table. There is a live... |
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