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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... |
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| Description: | A European American man is posing reading on the left, and a European American woman is posing standing on the right in a room decorated with Ho-Chunk arti... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Elroy Public Library. The library opened in 1908 and was funded by Andrew Carnegie with $10,000. On the lower right the cardboard back... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Mabel Tainter Memorial Library. The library opened in 1891 and was funded by a $95,000 gift from Captain & Mrs. A. Tainter. On the rig... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Stevens Point Public Library. The library opened in 1904 and was funded by a $22,000 donation from Andrew Carnegie. In the room are re... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Stevens Point Public Library. The library opened in 1904 and was funded by a $22,000 donation from Andrew Carnegie. The children's Roo... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Stevens Point Public Library. The library opened in 1904 and was funded by a $22,000 donation from Andrew Carnegie. In the room is a p... |
| 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: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Annie Schildhauer sitting indoors reading a book. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A young girl, Dorothy Hubbard, sits on a hardwood floor surrounded by pillows and reads a book. Next to the girl a large house plant grows in a pot, and a ... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Mr. Edward Schildhauer relaxes in a rocking chair with his feet on a desk. He is reading a newspaper. |
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