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| Date: | 11 07 1929 |
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| Description: | Homecoming window display at McVicar Photo Service, 723 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | View of a parlor interior (probably that of Herman Amberg Preus's parsonage) with a bay window and draperies, a statue, plants, an ornate clock on a table ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Portrait of two men sitting in a room lined with bookshelves. There is a banjo leaning in the corner next to a window. |
| Date: | 10 23 1956 |
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| Description: | Betty J. DiSalvo reading good night stories to her children, Michael DiSalvo (age 6) and Mark DiSalvo (age 4) after having solicited money for 27 Red Feath... |
| Date: | 01 02 1946 |
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| Description: | Manchester's show window titled "A Tribute to Madison" and featuring pages from the Saturday Evening Post article about Madison being a "miniature m... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Charles C. Parry (1823-1890), American Botanist. Parry is most famous for his botanical research in the southern Ro... |
| Date: | 05 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Woman sitting at a writing desk at Estella's. She is facing a bright window which has a window seat. |
| Date: | 04 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Tim, 8, and Maureen, 6, listen quietly as their mother, Mrs. Mark Schaefer, reads a bedtime fairy tale at their home on Mineral Point Road. Mrs. Schaefer b... |
| Date: | 11 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Six University of Wisconsin students and one professor sitting on a panel to record their aspirations for the second half of the twentieth century for "Par... |
| Date: | 05 16 1950 |
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| Description: | Seven Madison Vocational and Adult Education school students who received awards for "exceptional records in attendance, achievement and effort" at the sch... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | W.V.B. Holloway, Richard Quinney's maternal grandfather, sitting at a a table looking at a large book of maps. A phone is mounted to the wall next to him ... |
| Date: | 12 10 1951 |
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| Description: | Harriet Kirchhoff, Delta Gamma Sorority member, reading to a blind student, Robert Langford, as part of a University of Wisconsin Student Service project. ... |
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| Description: | An interior view of the library of the Central Park Officers' House. Seven men read in wooden and wicker chairs and decorative lighting hangs from the cei... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Halle Steensland poses in his lavishly decorated library at his house on 315 North Carroll Street. |
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| Description: | Interior of the reading room at Friedsam Memorial Library of St. Bonaventure University, founded in 1858. The reading room built in 1938 features rows of t... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of the living room of Wabanaki Lodge, a log building with a rustic interior. The room features a large fireplace on the left wall, tables, and wicker... |
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| Description: | View of the dining room in White Birch Lodge. The view features a stone fireplace and a table and chairs made of birch logs. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A couch, several wooden chairs, and a table are arranged in the living room of Mrs. Sam Barns. |
| Date: | 05 1960 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates speaks at a podium, with several people, including a smiling man, seated to her left. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of Forest Middleton sitting on a chair behind an unidentified man, woman, and boy. A heavy drape with tassels, top left, frames the s... |
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