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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Female workers and an attendant reading magazines and relaxing inside a "rest room" at International Harvester's Osborne Twine Mill. The Osborne Works was ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Dr. Joseph Smith reads at his desk in his office in the Wisconsin Valley Trust Building. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Carnegie Library, Richland Center, WI. Two people are seated at a table reading at the far left. A frieze decorates the wall above a d... |
| 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: | 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: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Otto G. Ansorge sits in his home on Lake Avenue and reads. Ansorge was a jeweler and band director in Winneconne. |
| 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: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin Historical Society Library Reading Room with people studying at tables. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | View from front of a classroom of students sitting at their desks in the Sedan Prairie School. A large round woodstove is in the back right corner of the r... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Students sit at desks inside Sedan Prairie School while others stand in the back of the classroom to prepare lunch. The poster hanging on the back wall rea... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Unidentified woman seated in a wicker chair reading in the Jane Adams room at Rockford College. A walled-over fireplace is on the wall behind her, and an H... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Forest Middleton, wearing a visor and moccassins, sits at a roll top desk. He holds an open book and is smoking a pipe. There are two oil lamps on the desk... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View from yard of man sitting and reading a newspaper or magazine in a rocking chair on the porch of a house. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Interior of the public library. The room contains tables and chairs, a bust sculpture of a woman, and bookshelves. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still of two men standing outdoors looking at a newspaper. A horse is tethered behind them. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A man is reading a booklet advertising the Albaugh-Dover square turn farm tractor. The text reads: "The Farm Tractor You Have Waited For is Here. A One Man... |
| Date: | 02 22 1913 |
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| Description: | A woman, probably a factory worker at International Harvester's Osborne Twine Mill, is sitting at a wooden desk reading a book. She is in a narrow room wit... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A group of women reading in a large room. One woman stands in front of a glass-fronted bookcase against the back wall. The woman wear brightly colored and ... |
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