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Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view of a large, multi-generational Norwegian family and friends gathered for a picnic celebration. In the foreground are picnic baskets ... |
Date: | 1936 |
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Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife Olgivanna, seated together reading in a bedroom at Taliesin. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring Green, Wisconsin... |
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Description: | A scrapbook page containing five photographs of John R. Commons and farm labor. The handwriting in the center reads: "Dale Farm with AL and Windy." Caption... |
Date: | 1877 |
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Description: | Stereograph of Rev. A. Jacobson, family and visitors, Perry, Wis." from Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." Jacobson (1836-1910) immigrated to t... |
Date: | 1929 |
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Description: | Two young women talking in a bedroom. One is packing or unpacking clothes into a travel bag. A copy of Herbert Quick's "Vandemark's Folly" is among the boo... |
Date: | 12 28 1981 |
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Description: | Father reading "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain to his son. |
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Description: | Woman reading "House Beautiful" magazine at Greenwood House. |
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Description: | Interior view of Upham residence. There are bookshelves along the back wall. A large, arched doorway leads into another room on the right, with a glass-fro... |
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: | 1950 |
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Description: | A young child examines a children's book with her grandmother. |
Date: | 1919 |
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Description: | Three girls serving cups of food and bread to children seated at their desks in a Cook County, District 137 classroom. The activity may have been part of t... |
Date: | 08 1927 |
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Description: | A woman pretends to pour kerosene on a hot stove as part of an International Harvester Agricultural Extension Department campaign to make families aware of... |
Date: | 08 1927 |
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Description: | "Jewel" brand stove inside a farmhouse kitchen. The original caption reads: "Stove for patch work in making faked pictures." |
Date: | 07 17 1926 |
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Description: | Staged scene of a woman sewing with a young child attempting to help. This photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Depart... |
Date: | 1953 |
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Description: | Two young children relax in their pajamas while reading "A Child's Story of the Nativity." |
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: | 12 20 1930 |
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Description: | Informal portrait of Jerome C. and May Holt sitting in rockers in their living room at 1922 Madison Street. |
Date: | 09 30 1930 |
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Description: | Portrait of Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. at the La Follette Farm in Maple Bluff. There is a spinning wheel beside him on the right near a bookcase. |
Date: | 11 15 1963 |
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Description: | Pastry maker removes oil with baster from pan of baked baklava against the backdrop of a map of Armenia. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | Two men clink coffee mugs as they prepare to drink their morning coffee. |
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