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| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Family in their living room. The mother watches television, the father reads a newspaper, the daughter reads a book, and two sons play with a train set. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Beatrice C. Gesell and Gerhard Gesell, Jr. play out-of-doors. While mother watches the baby sits on a pillow playing with a volume titled "Educational Pro... |
| Date: | 08 06 1963 |
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| Description: | A mother reads stories on her front steps to children from around the block. |
| Date: | 12 16 1947 |
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| Description: | June McGovern is reading The Night Before Christmas to her children Diane, Jill and Jackie. |
| Date: | 01 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. J. Riley (Anne) Best, Eagle Heights apartments, reading a book to her two children, Sally 6, and Steven, 4. The family is new to the area, having move... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Mrs. E.W. Brandel sits in a rocking chair on the porch at Fox Lake leaning on the edge of a table. She has a book on her lap and Max the family dog is at h... |
| 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: | 12 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Bettina Bjorksten, an opera singer and teacher in Madison and other cities. Her family migrated from Germany to Brazil when Naziism became 'une... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | World War II permeated every aspect of life in America during World War II, and nothing was wasted that could contribute to the war effort. Here a young b... |
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| Description: | Sixteenth plate ferrotype/tintype of an old woman. She is seated with her hands in her lap and is holding a book. She is wearing a white bonnet tied with a... |
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| Description: | Interior view one of of Hillsboro's early libraries. The library was located in the back of Addie Lind's millinery shop where it connected to an adjoining ... |
| Date: | 1846 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of Betsy H. Smith, left, with her daughter, Laura, right,and son, George. The three are the mother, sister and brother of Rosella... |
| Date: | 10 30 2012 |
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| Description: | A girl wearing a coat with patches for Tommy Thompson for Senator and Feehan for State Senator stands holding a Mitt Romney book. Her sister stands behind ... |
| Date: | 10 30 2012 |
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| Description: | A mother and two daughters pose outside of a Paul Ryan Rally Event at the La Crosse County Republican Headquarters. One girl holds a Mitt Romney book. The ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Two women and three girls posing in front of the Hotel on the Hill. Blanche Richter is seated at left and holds a cat on her lap. The woman standing next t... |
| Date: | 04 08 1958 |
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| Description: | "All the Winnipeg girls were housed with Madison families during their four-day stay. While Bonnie Rejahl, hugging a toy bear, left, and her Canadian house... |
| Date: | 02 02 1959 |
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| Description: | Paula Suomi in her seventh grade classroom at Cherokee Junior High. She is the mother of three. |
| Date: | 12 1935 |
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| Description: | Herbert E. Brumder, second from right, is shaking his mother Margaret's hand as his brother Philip, far left, and sister Barbara, center, are smiling broad... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of mother (Lucy Rumsey Holt) and daughter (Eleanor Holt). Looking up, Eleanor Holt appears to be asking her mother to read her a story. T... |
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