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| 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. |
| Date: | 06 23 1931 |
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| Description: | Three University of Wisconsin-Madison coeds are playing cards, and one woman is reading, on the roof of Ann Emery Hall, 265 Langdon Street, an independent ... |
| 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. |
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| Description: | View of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin's Library Reading Room from the mezzanine. |
| Date: | 10 01 1938 |
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| Description: | J. Robert Taylor cleaning a furnace. He has a broom and a small brush in hand, a pipe in his mouth, and a dirty rag placed on his head. He is reading a doc... |
| 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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| Description: | A school teacher reads to elementary school children, who are sitting on the floor in a large, open classroom. |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | The playground director from the board of education's recreation division reads a story to children at the Wirth Court playground during storybook hour. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Annie Schildhauer sitting indoors reading a book. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A young girl, Dorothy Hubbard, sits on a hardwood floor surrounded by pillows and reads a book. Next to the girl a large house plant grows in a pot, and a ... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Mr. Edward Schildhauer relaxes in a rocking chair with his feet on a desk. He is reading a newspaper. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | F.D. Eyerley sits with his wife and his daughter on the front stoop of their home on West Johnson Street. They are reading from a book. A small, wicker roc... |
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| Description: | View of women reading at Saint Xavier Academy, established by the Sisters of Mercy in 1847. The women sit in the grass near a statue of Mary and Jesus. Cap... |
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| Description: | Four members of the Bailey family, two men and two women, stand and sit around a small table in front of a fireplace. There is a music stand below the wind... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | City street in Puerto Rico, seemingly at dusk. Shop windows are brightly lit, and a man leans against one while reading a newspaper. Other men are having t... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | First page of an album kept by Neighborhood House, with individual images of head resident Gay Braxton, second resident Mary Lee Griggs, and two exterior v... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Students protesting the Kuomintang's authoritarian control of Taiwan on Library Mall at the Calvary Lutheran Chapel. In the foreground a man is leaning aga... |
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| Description: | View from sidewalk of Sid sitting in jail with a cigar in his mouth while reading a Gideon Bible. Sid is looking out of the iron gate of a stone building, ... |
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| Description: | Sid sitting on a stool on top of his "Hippopotamus" sculpture in his backyard at 237 Waubesa Street. He has a cigar in his mouth and is reading a newspaper... |
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