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| Description: | Woman reading "House Beautiful" magazine at Greenwood House. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Photographer Herman Taylor's children sit at a little table in front of the hearth in the library. |
| Date: | 12 05 1935 |
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| Description: | Roy F. Bergengren, managing director of CUNA (Credit Union National Association), sitting behind his desk in his office at Raiffeisen House, 142 East Gilma... |
| Date: | 01 07 1935 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Phillip (Isabel) La Follette reading to Bob and Judy, her children, at the Governor's Residence, 130 East Gilman Street. |
| Date: | 09 23 1932 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Kate Schmedeman, Mayor Albert G. Schmedeman's wife, sitting in a chair beside a fireplace reading a book in her home, 504 Wisconsin Avenue. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | A woman working in the library at Hillside Home school, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Walter and Virginia Ross relaxing indoors by the fireplace at Ross Teal Lake Lodge. Caption reads: "Mr. & Mrs. W.R. Ross at Ross' Teal Lake Lodge on Teal L... |
| Date: | 04 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Reverend George E. Hunt, age 80, interim pastor at Christ Presbyterian Church. |
| Date: | 01 07 1947 |
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| Description: | Included in the group portrait taken at the 50th anniversary luncheon of the founding of the Gudrid Reading circle are, from the left: Mrs. Juliue E. (Ann... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Thordarson library featuring a massive fireplace with two men posing on either side of it. The building is of stone, with arched windo... |
| Date: | 12 16 1947 |
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| Description: | June McGovern is reading The Night Before Christmas to her children Diane, Jill and Jackie. |
| Date: | 01 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Twin boys Donald (left) and Ronald Jacobson, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Jacobson. They are holding coloring and music books, and are sitting on a rug in f... |
| Date: | 08 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Mary Rennebohm, wife of Governor Oscar Rennebohm, is shown dressed in a nineteenth century gown and bonnet while serving as a hostess at the opening day of... |
| Date: | 08 25 1948 |
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| Description: | Five delegates to the Wisconsin Elks 46th annual convention at the Madison Elks Lodge. Left to right are R.W. Gustafson, Ashland; Frank T. Lynde, Antigo, s... |
| Date: | 11 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross sorting books at the library of Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Left to right: Mrs. Frederick Hillyer, and ... |
| Date: | 02 10 1949 |
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| Description: | The knotty pine living room in the home of the Edward B.A. Sokoloski family at 874 Woodrow Street. Mrs. Lucille Sokoloski is reading a book, and the family... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Interior room of student center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A student meeting is being held. One man stokes the fire in the fireplace, o... |
| 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: | 1934 |
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| Description: | E.W. and Mary Brandel relax together in their home in front of a brick fireplace. They are both wearing eyeglasses; he is reading a newspaper and she is kn... |
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