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| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Alexander Krueger sitting outdoors in a wicker rocking chair with his granddaughter, Shirley, sitting in his lap, while he is reading a newspaper. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Robert and Shirley Krueger sitting in front of a decorated Christmas tree. Robert is sitting crossed legged while Shirley is sitting and reading a book. Se... |
| Date: | 03 11 1961 |
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| Description: | Young people crowded around library tables laden with stacks of books. The photograph is one of a series showing the crowded conditions at the Madison Publ... |
| Date: | 03 11 1961 |
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| Description: | Library patrons crowded together at the card catalog. The photograph is one of a series showing the crowded conditions at the Madison Public Library at 206... |
| Date: | 03 11 1961 |
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| Description: | Men and women crowd around two library tables while reading. The photograph is one of a series showing the crowded conditions at the Madison Public Library... |
| Date: | 02 02 1975 |
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| Description: | Ernst Schmidt, at age 81, sits reading the "Wisconsin Magazine of History" at a table at Black Point. A telephone and lamp with a stained glass shade stand... |
| Date: | 08 04 1961 |
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| Description: | David Saalsaa, age 9, studies while his Uncle Oscar, left, and father, Edward relax and read in their shared living room. The room has a Mid Century curvin... |
| Date: | 09 05 1961 |
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| Description: | Joy Feinberg, a University of Wisconsin freshman from Mansfield, Ohio, reading in the living room of the newly opened Lowell Hall, a private women's reside... |
| Date: | 09 12 1961 |
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| Description: | Third graders read in Blessed Sacrament school library. Left to right: Mary Jo Sweeney, Kathy Gorman and Bill Morgan. |
| Date: | 12 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Ernst Conrad Schmidt (1893-1977), grandson of Chicago brewer Conrad Seipp, sitting in an easy chair reading in his high ceilinged, wood pa... |
| Date: | 11 02 1961 |
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| Description: | Patty McCutchin is shown attentively listening to a story while resting on a bedroll in the gym of the YWCA. Other pajama-clad girls are nearby reading or ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Edward Petersen poses, seated in a chair, and his wife stands next to him on the left. They appear to be reading papers which Edward is holding. Behind the... |
| Date: | 03 16 1965 |
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| Description: | David Humphrey, 12, a trained baby sitter, is shown reading to Ann Marie Upham, 3; her brother, Tommy, 4 1/2; and Rusty Sherlock, 3 1/2 at the Upham home i... |
| Date: | 12 09 1965 |
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| Description: | Susan Jakel, Orchard Ridge School sixth grader, discusses "A Christmas Carol" with her classmates after they read the Charles Dickens classic as part of th... |
| Date: | 12 09 1965 |
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| Description: | Greg Gessert, Orchard Ridge School sixth grader, discusses "A Christmas Carol" with his classmates after they read the Charles Dickens classic as part of t... |
| Date: | 12 09 1965 |
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| Description: | Ellen Nicholson, Orchard Ridge School sixth grader, discusses "A Christmas Carol" with her classmates after they read the Charles Dickens classic as part o... |
| Date: | 12 09 1965 |
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| Description: | Jacklynn Dulek, Orchard Ridge School sixth grader, discusses "A Christmas Carol" with her classmates after they read the Charles Dickens classic as part of... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Students protesting the Kuomintang's authoritarian control of Taiwan on Library Mall at the Calvary Lutheran Chapel. In the foreground a man is leaning aga... |
| Date: | 12 31 1979 |
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| Description: | Felipe Quirós-Pérez reading yesterday's paper in a booth at Rennebohm's on State Street. |
| Date: | 12 18 1979 |
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| Description: | A student, with a book on his lap, is taking a rest from studying on a couch at the Elvehjem Library at UW-Madison. |
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