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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Ada Bass sitting in a rocking chair while crocheting. Sitting across from her is a woman identified as Llora, who is reading. There is a replica of a cat p... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two men pause to read parts lists(?) while mounting farm equipment parts to a large board. The parts are labeled with part numbers. The board was probably ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Ada Bass reading a book while lying in a hammock. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Library Reading Room as completed in 1901, showing skylights and ceiling fixtures, library tables and lights, and many University of Wisconsin students at ... |
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| Description: | A mother reads to her two children outdoors. |
| Date: | 09 24 1947 |
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| Description: | Five women enjoying the library at Elizabeth Waters Dormitory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The portrait on the wall at the far end is of ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Log cabin known as the "haunted house" on Rock Island, remodeled by Chester Thordarson. There are three people sitting on the porch. |
| Date: | 11 11 1947 |
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| Description: | Members of the University of Wisconsin Dames Club giving a play reading of "I Remember Mama". Left to right are Mrs. Milton Schroeder, Mrs. Albert Booth, ... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin students (primarily women) studying in the Historical Society Library Reading Room. On the left is the Visitors Gallery. |
| 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: | 03 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Radio station WIBA Story Corner Lady, Jeanne Remus, reading a book to Ann and Kathy Taylor, daughters of Robert and Fannie Taylor, 1921 Keyes Avenue. The S... |
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| Description: | Catherine Winston, a staff member at the Highlander Folk School, reading a book and smoking a cigarette. |
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| Description: | Mine, Mill & Smelters Union reading by a lake at Highlander Folk School. Will Thomas, second on the right, smoking a pipe. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | A woman at an office desk reads a pamphlet entitled, "What is Quality in a Motor Truck?" A male worker speaks on the telephone in the background. The two m... |
| Date: | 06 04 1934 |
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| Description: | A man sits in an armchair reading an advertisement for the International Harvester "New 1/2-Ton Truck." A free-standing ashtray is next to the chair. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | A man holding a cigar is sitting at a desk looking at an International Harvester trucks booklet. A copy of International Trail magazine is on the de... |
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| Description: | An elderly woman in a straw sun hat reading a book in the Highlander Folk School Library. |
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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. |
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| Description: | Two men smoking cigars, one in the process of lighting his while reading a newspaper, possibly the "Union Farmer". |
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