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| Description: | Four well-dressed people relax in a parlor. They are reading, sewing and playing the piano. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with man sitting in an easy chair in front of a fireplace. He is smoking a pipe and reading a book. There is a model sailing ship on the mantl... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Portrait of John Muir. He is seated and is reading a book. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with a woman sitting in a meadow reading a book. She is wearing a yellow dress and a red hat with a feather. To the right in the backg... |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting in a wooden chair while reading and resting his foot against a woodstove. The photograph was staged at International Harvester's Hinsdale ... |
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| Description: | Four members of the Bailey family, two men and two women, stand and sit around a small table in front of a fireplace. There is a music stand below the wind... |
| Date: | 08 1931 |
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| Description: | Mrs. L.A. Hawkins sitting on a couch while reading "The Farmer's Wife" magazine in the living room of her home. A fireplace is on the opposite wall, and ch... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Miss Lielle Geddis sitting in a rocking chair while reading an issue of "Country Gentleman" magazine in the living room of her home. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A carefully posed scene of a man, woman, and girl at home. The girl sits with a cat on her lap. The man, in a wicker rocker, reads the "Editorial Section" ... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Men and women seated on benches along both walls of Kenneth Crook's Uranium Tunnel in Lone Rock. Note the uranium pads visitors hold in their laps or on th... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Isaiah Pyant, C.I.O. member, sitting in an armchair in his home reading the newspaper. |
| Date: | 12 14 1953 |
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| Description: | Ada Moseley of 616 North Carroll Street demonstrates a Christmas custom by sitting near a fireplace reading "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Clara Middleton poses seated in a chair, reading. She is wearing a narrow fur stole over her shoulder. |
| 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: | 03 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Frank J. Vaughn reads to 6-year-old Kenneth Lemmer, Jr. and 5-year-old Ann Lemmer while the children's grandmother, Kath B. Morrissey, works on an afg... |
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| Description: | Still wearing his pajamas, "Milwaukee Sentinel" editor Alvin Steinkopf reads the newspaper. The popular comic strip, "Gasoline Alley," can be seen on the ... |
| Date: | 06 1942 |
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| Description: | An off-duty member of the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta freighter reading a newspaper. The man is resting against the wall of the ship and... |
| Date: | 06 1942 |
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| Description: | A member of the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta relaxing in his bunk while reading a book in Spanish and smoking a cigarette. The man is on ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | 26th of July Movement soldiers rest by a river in Oriente Province while on patrol during the Cuban Revolution. They are sitting on a rocky bank of the riv... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | John Johnston (1836-1904) sits with his feet up on a hassock in his library while reading a paper. Johnston, a successful Milwaukee banker, lived at 645 Fr... |
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