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| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Family in their living room. The mother watches television, the father reads a newspaper, the daughter reads a book, and two sons play with a train set. |
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| Description: | Carrie Chapman Catt in her Seattle home reading a book. |
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| Description: | Woman reading "House Beautiful" magazine at Greenwood House. |
| Date: | 08 12 1958 |
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| Description: | Urbane gentleman shows off his sophisticated high fidelity wall system with reel-to-reel tape deck, reels of tape, and record albums. |
| Date: | 08 1925 |
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| Description: | Mr. Wolfe sitting in a chair reading Successful Farming magazine to a young child on his lap. |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Miss Marilla Zearing reading a newspaper on a rocking chair in the screened porch of her home. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agric... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright sits by a sunlit window in his living room at Taliesin, with papers spread before him on a table. |
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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: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Group of people posing around an organ. A young woman in a white dress is sitting at the organ, facing left, with an older man behind her on the right. On ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Israel Greene Beaumont House located at 203 South Jefferson Street. Anne ("Aunt Nan") Brett is seated in the south wing room. Beaumont's house was demolis... |
| 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Author August Derleth surrounded by books at his desk. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Dr. Edward A. Bass reading the newspaper while seated next to his daughter, Everetta. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Ada Bass sitting in a rocking chair while crocheting. Sitting across from her is a woman identified as Llora, who is reading. There is a replica of a cat p... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | John Barry and his family seated around a piano in their home. |
| Date: | 09 24 1947 |
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| Description: | Five women enjoying the library at Elizabeth Waters Dormitory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The portrait on the wall at the far end is of ... |
| 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: | 02 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Three women looking at an exhibit at the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week, showing room furnishing revolving around rural paintings. Pictured lef... |
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