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Children in Library

Date: 1938
Description: Young children reading at the library. A librarian works near the circulation desk in the background. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seating cap...
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Father with Three Children

Date: 05 1958
Description: A father, Peter Froeming, watching as his three children George, Robert, and Roseann are playing with wooden blocks, with a small toy canoe in the foregrou...
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Unkempt Bedroom with Children

Date: 03 1909
Description: A young boy and girl sitting on an iron bedstead in the corner of their unkempt bedroom.
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Dance Hall Wine Room

Date: 01 01 1914
Description: People sitting at a table in a dance hall wine room at 2:00 a.m.
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Children Playing in Bedroom

Date: 02 10 1955
Description: Elevated view of boy sitting on a toy fire engine, another boy dressed as a cowboy, and a girl with a toy cash register playing in the bedroom.
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Nurses

Date: 1900
Description: Eight nurses in uniform posing in front of a building (probably their workplace). Some of the women are holding a bedframe, pail, and a broom, and other it...
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Playing Cards

Date: 05 10 1955
Description: Members of a musician's union playing cards together.
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Switchboard Operator

Date: 01 23 1958
Description: Female telephone switchboard operator at work.
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Operators

Date: 10 22 1957
Description: Female telephone operators busy at work.
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Pet Hamsters

Date: 03 17 1955
Description: A boy plays with his pet rodents (hamsters).
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Mah Jongg Game

Date: 05 14 1958
Description: Four women playing Mah Jongg, a Chinese game using tiles.
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Tannisse and David Taylor having a Tea Party

Date: 1914
Description: Photographer Herman Taylor's children sit at a little table in front of the hearth in the library.
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Baking Christmas Cookies

Date: 12 20 1958
Description: Mother and children enjoy baking, decorating, and eating Christmas cookies.
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Hospital Patient Watching Television

Date: 01 17 1958
Description: The installation of televisions in hospital rooms is a welcome addition to this patient at Misericordia Hospital.
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A White Glove Event

Date: 11 04 1956
Description: Sophomores at Alverno College greet incoming freshmen with an annual tea party.
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Grace Putnam

Date: 12 26 1931
Description: Grace Putnam, executive secretary of the Madison Woman's Club, in the Woman's Building, 240 W. Gilman street.
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Family at Home

Date: 1955
Description: A mother posing with her seven children in the living room of their home.
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Railroad Speed Recorder

Date: 03 05 1939
Description: George Jung, a Milwaukee Road speed recorder, comparing speed tapes from locomotives with master tapes covering the same division. The scale of the tapes i...
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Boy Scout Hijinks

Date: 1946
Description: Elevated view during a meal at the Wisconsin State Fair, where a crowd of Boy Scouts mug for the camera.
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Campaign Mailing

Date: 10 1946
Description: Members of the United Automobile Workers Auxilary #2 preparing literature for the political campaign of E.V. Bobrowicz. Bobrowicz, an officer of the Fur an...

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