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Filter: Year of 1900-1999
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the length of the Historical Society Library Reading Room, including tables, chairs, lamps and skylight. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A young girl posed near a window and glancing up. The window has a stained glass panel, possibly depicting the nursery rhyme character Humpty Dumpty. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A group of kindergarten students posed sitting and standing near the fireplace in their classroom. The fireplace is surrounded by tiling depicting fairy ta... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A portrait of two young students, a boy and a girl, standing next to each other and holding hands near the fireplace in their kindergarten classroom. The f... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A group of five kindergarten students sitting around a table doing work near the fireplace in their classroom. The fireplace is surrounded by tiling depict... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A group of fourteen kindergarten students posed in their classroom, standing and sitting with their arms above their heads. Behind them is a window with a ... |
| Date: | 11 14 1951 |
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| Description: | Charles Thomas of East High School, and Pat Lawrence of West High School put the finishing touches on decorations for the all-city football team banquet at... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | An interior view of a hotel lobby, filled with chairs and other furniture, plants, columns, and several men standing in the background. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A view of a hotel lobby filled with chairs and other furniture, plants, columns, and several men standing in the background. |
| Date: | 12 16 1951 |
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| Description: | Four young residents of Maple Bluff stand in front of the giant 32-foot-high Christmas display of a manger scene at the intersection of Charing Cross Road ... |
| Date: | 07 11 1917 |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn wagons outside a large church with belfry in a town along the Trans-Siberian Railway. The original caption reads: "tower of 300 year old church... |
| Date: | 07 11 1917 |
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| Description: | Church buildings in a town along the Trans-Siberian Railway. Original caption reads: "seminary church and buildings at Vyatka." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View down a Petrograd (St. Petersburg) street with the Church of the Resurrection in the background. |
| Date: | 03 18 1952 |
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| Description: | Two of the mothers and daughters pictured at the East Side Women's Club Mother-Daughter Banquet, which had a circus motif, are, left to right: Margaret Alw... |
| Date: | 05 09 1952 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of two prom couples. On the left, seated, is Margie Lynch with Terry Dwyer, standing. On the right, seated, is Jeanne Tierney with Skip Beri... |
| Date: | 05 09 1952 |
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| Description: | Two couples in formal dress are seated between two large prop anchors. They are Norbert Esser and Susan Hunt (left), and Marcia Pilon with Jim Corcoran (ri... |
| Date: | 05 18 1952 |
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| Description: | A couple enacting a bride and groom during the style show at the Tri Delta "Pansy Breakfast". Portraying the bride is Marilyn Navin, Tri Delta, and the gro... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A view of the living room at the Switzer Foundation for Girls. Bookshelves flank the fireplace in the background, and groupings of chairs and tables fill t... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A view of the living room at the Switzer Foundation for Girls, with all chairs upholstered in matching floral fabric. Most of the chairs and sofas circle t... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View looking south inside a guest room at 'Fairlawn' Hotel (?). The room features tables, chairs, and decorative items above a fireplace. Published by Ye... |
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