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| Date: | 12 28 1981 |
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| Description: | Father reading "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain to his son. |
| 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: | 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. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | The Andrew Amundsen family is sitting around a table covered in a white knit cloth. Some of them are holding books. Their frame house is in the background.... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Family in front yard around two tables set for coffee, tea and perhaps some other beverage. Frame house in back has a sign for grass seed from Whitewater o... |
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| Description: | Six women and a man gathered at a parlor table at a boarding house. The man is probably Amos Elliott, and the women around the table are teachers studying ... |
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| Description: | Two men and two women reading in a parlor, possibly J.R. Ogden and wife, and Grace Ogden and Carl (?). |
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| Description: | Three men, woman, and boy posed reading in a room. |
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| Description: | Man seated in a rocking chair reading with deer head mount reflected in mirror. |
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| Description: | Portrait of a man and a woman posed sitting in the corner of a room near a desk and two book stands. The desk has a clock and many books on it. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Otto G. Ansorge sits in his home on Lake Avenue and reads. Ansorge was a jeweler and band director in Winneconne. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Self-portrait of Dr. Edward Bass reading in his parlor. Several prints of his own photographs decorate the room. There is a parlor organ on the right. |
| 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: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Mr. Lutfring sitting in a wicker rocking chair while reading a newspaper. The room is furnished with an upholstered divan, lamp with fringe shade, carpetin... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | William Elwell Middleton stands beside the giant candy cane which he won on Christmas Day, 1909. There is a bookcase in the background. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Forest Middleton sleeps on a settee as his father, William, reads and his mother and Grandmother Joanna Middleton sit nearby. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | William Middleton, left, plays chess against an unidentified opponent. Williams' son, Forest, with chin in hands, watches with an unidentified man and wom... |
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