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| 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: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A book illustration featuring a young girl sitting on a flying book which flies over a picturesque landscape. The text reads, "Carol Witthuhn her book." Th... |
| Date: | 01 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Autographed photograph of Chauncey "The Bear Hunter" Bottum reading a magazine called Traveler. The autograph is for Governor Goodland, and reads "B... |
| Date: | 06 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Ten Madison school children, all fourth through sixth graders, sit with librarian Mrs. E.J. Levenick in the Madison Free Library children's reading room. T... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Several young men, probably students, are seated side by side on a couch reading books. The caption beneath the image reads "Reading--A Good Form of Recrea... |
| 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: | 10 11 1950 |
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| Description: | Blanche Mitchell reading to her second grade students at Lowell School. She is one of many teachers who are members of the Madison Business and Professiona... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | "The Reader," an illustration of a woman reading while seated at a lace-covered sewing machine cabinet. The illustration was part of "The Universal Sewing ... |
| Date: | 01 02 1951 |
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| Description: | Madison General Hospital Auxiliary volunteer worker Mabel Lewis reading to Billy McCord, patient. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Girls at camp read around the fire at Camp St. Helene with the Franciscan missionaries of Mary. A forty-eight star flag, plants, and a religious statue can... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A young woman poses reclining and reading a magazine. She wears a bangled costume, tights, and dance slippers. |
| Date: | 10 12 1951 |
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| Description: | Isa Shower, a tuberculosis patient at Lake View Sanatorium, reads while lying in bed. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Paul Robeson reading a copy of the leftist newspaper, the "National Guardian". |
| Date: | 11 19 1951 |
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| Description: | A woman reads to two children at the First Unitarian Church on University Bay Drive prior to the upcoming Theta Sigma Phi Alumnae "Holiday Book Fair" that ... |
| 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: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A man in a sweater vest, wool pants and eyeglasses sits in the sun on the pier reading. Gently rippling water fill most of the photograph while the foregr... |
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