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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Gerhard Gesell sitting in a chair reading an issue of the "Photographic Recorder". |
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| Description: | View of women reading at Saint Xavier Academy, established by the Sisters of Mercy in 1847. The women sit in the grass near a statue of Mary and Jesus. Cap... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of the reading room of the First Church of Christ Scientist, built in 1903. A man and a woman are sitting at a table surrounded by chairs and wooden b... |
| 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: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Halle Steensland poses in his lavishly decorated library at his house on 315 North Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A view of three men sitting outdoors and reading on the Senior Bench at the University of Illinois. The seat is made of stone and "1900" is engraved into i... |
| Date: | 06 10 1952 |
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| Description: | Grandfather Harry L. Geisler reads a Woman's Day magazine to his grandchildren, Timmy (James William), 5, and Nancy Anne, 2, at their home at 3120 Oxford R... |
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| Description: | Interior of a library reading room. A man and two women sit at tables, reading. A door leads out of the room on the left, and windows have open transoms on... |
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| Description: | Interior of the library at Washington Irving High School, built in 1913 and designed b C.B.J. Snyder. Students study at tables and take books from the shel... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of New York University's library reading room taken from the upper level balcony. Founded in 1831, the university's reading room features lar... |
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| Description: | Interior of a reading room at Willard Straight Hall, opened in 1925. The hall can be found in the union of Cornell University, founded in 1865. Men sit an... |
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| Description: | View down the front hall at Perkiomen Seminary, towards a room with a group of men reading around a table. Hall furnishings include two carpets and a group... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A relaxed man sits in a chair reading a paper with his slippers on. He has food and drink on a nearby table. Below the captions reads "One of the C.S.A. ge... |
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| Description: | A man is reading at a desk, while a woman writes on a pad of paper seated nearby in an office at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). |
| Date: | 10 10 2008 |
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| Description: | A woman is reading "Sarah Palin — A New Kind of Leader" at the entrance of the McCain rally. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Mr. Lutfring sitting in a wicker rocking chair while reading a newspaper. The room is furnished with an upholstered divan, lamp with fringe shade, carpetin... |
| 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: | 04 01 1960 |
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| Description: | A fashionably dressed woman is sharing a book with an elderly woman. |
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| Description: | A woman in dark glasses, who is a resident of Dane County Hospital and Home, reads a book in Braille as her therapist looks on. |
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