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| 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... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Three children reading books near a bookmobile parked in a suburban neighborhood. The bookmobile was an International Loadstar 1600. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Dr. Joseph Smith reads at his desk in his office in the Wisconsin Valley Trust Building. |
| Date: | 09 23 1932 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Kate Schmedeman, Mayor Albert G. Schmedeman's wife, sitting in a chair beside a fireplace reading a book in her home, 504 Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 10 30 1931 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a fourth grade class at Washington School, 217 N. Broom Street, at work in the classroom. Caption reads: "A Fourth Grade at Work. Madison Publ... |
| Date: | 03 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Martha Hardin reading to Janet Brahn and Betty Thomsen at the nursery school established on the third floor of the home of University president, Charles A.... |
| Date: | 06 27 1945 |
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| Description: | Six children with a day care worker. The Abraham Lincoln School for Social Science of Chicago, Illinois, sponsored a Summer Institute in Madison for severa... |
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| Description: | A group of manual laborers are reading books near a tent. "TVA" [Tennessee Valley Authority] has been collaged over the image. Part of a series of Highland... |
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| Description: | View of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin's Library Reading Room from the mezzanine. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Posed photograph of a University of Wisconsin student studying in his room. |
| 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: | 07 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Ginny Hall, a West High School senior, has a summer job caring for Sharon and Sandra Sinn, the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Sinn, 3405 Blackhawk Dr... |
| Date: | 08 30 1938 |
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| Description: | Children line up at the entrance to the Superior Bookmobile trailer. Other children ride bicycles and play in a playground in the background. The original... |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | The playground director from the board of education's recreation division reads a story to children at the Wirth Court playground during storybook hour. |
| 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. ... |
| Date: | 04 01 1960 |
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| Description: | A fashionably dressed woman is sharing a book with an elderly woman. |
| Date: | 12 14 1953 |
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| Description: | Ada Moseley of 616 North Carroll Street demonstrates a Christmas custom by sitting near a fireplace reading "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. |
| Date: | 06 1942 |
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| Description: | A member of the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta relaxing in his bunk while reading a book in Spanish and smoking a cigarette. The man is on ... |
| Date: | 03 31 1908 |
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| Description: | Twins Edgar and Jennie Krueger sitting on the steps of a porch reading a book together. They are nine-years-old. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Publicity still for the Artcraft movie "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," featuring Mary Pickford in the title role, in costume, reading the book by Kate Dougla... |
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