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| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Two men sitting in the stands review the Milwaukee Braves official program during a game. |
| Date: | 12 28 1981 |
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| Description: | Father reading "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain to his son. |
| Date: | 05 14 1987 |
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| Description: | A couple holds hands and reads together while sitting on a bench. |
| Date: | 08 06 1963 |
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| Description: | A mother reads stories on her front steps to children from around the block. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Two women casually reading in a dorm room at Milwaukee-Downer College. A map of Milwaukee hangs on one wall. |
| Date: | 10 01 1938 |
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| Description: | J. Robert Taylor cleaning a furnace. He has a broom and a small brush in hand, a pipe in his mouth, and a dirty rag placed on his head. He is reading a doc... |
| Date: | 10 01 1938 |
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| Description: | Taylor is relaxing, sitting in a chair tilted back, and smoking his pipe and reading his paper in front of an open heater. A kerchief is covering his head.... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A librarian checks out a book to a young girl, while other children sit at tables reading in the background. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seat... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A woman and man sit at a round table in a public library reading. An office cubicle and magazine rack are visible in the background. When it opened in 1938... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Three boys in a public library looking for books in the main stacks. A table and magazine rack are in the foreground. When it opened in 1938, the Library h... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A group of children, boys and girls, reading at tables in a sunny reading room in the public library. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seating cap... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A group of children sit at tables in a library reading books and magazines while a librarian looks on from her circulation desk. When it opened in 1938, th... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Isaiah Pyant, C.I.O. member, sitting in an armchair in his home reading the newspaper. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | John Johnston (1836-1904) sits with his feet up on a hassock in his library while reading a paper. Johnston, a successful Milwaukee banker, lived at 645 Fr... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | High school student, Judith Castine, leaning on a desk, studying at West Milwaukee High School. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The front and back covers of a booklet whose title, translated from German, is Pearls. Short Stories for Children. At the bottom of the front cover ... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Philip George Brumder reading a magazine in the back seat of a car, while leaning against the side with his feet up on the seat. He is wearing a cap and ha... |
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