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| Date: | 10 17 1963 |
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| Description: | A librarian reads a children's book aloud to young boys and girls. |
| Date: | 08 24 1934 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist. |
| Date: | 05 1896 |
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| Description: | Minnie Oakley and Florence Baker Hayes (reaching for a book), two Historical Society librarians, during the period when the Society was housed in the South... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Minnie Oakley, assistant librarian of the Wisconsin Historical Society, seated at her desk in the South Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol. This photogra... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Emma Hawley, a Historical Society librarian, at her desk in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. After the Society purchased its first type... |
| Date: | 03 15 1899 |
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| Description: | Detail of the Assembly Chamber photograph focusing on the journalists seated near the front of the room. During the 19th century, coverage of Capitol news ... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Halle Steensland and his wife Sophia pose with their five children (left to right: Morten, Henry, Edward, Halbert and Helen) in front of their home in Mapl... |
| Date: | 08 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Frederica McCutcheon stands near a display of portraits and photographic equipment, at her studio, 638 State Street. |
| Date: | 06 27 1945 |
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| Description: | Group of adults listening to a lecturer, probably Dr. Philip S. Fonert talking on American history. The Abraham Lincoln School for Social Science of Chicag... |
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| Description: | Chiang Kai Shek during a press conference shortly after his arrival in Taiwan. Seated beside him is Madame Chaing Kai Shek and standing is reporter Cecil B... |
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| Description: | Robert Sarnoff (center), president of NBC, at a social gathering in Tokyo with Cecil Brown, the head of NBC's bureau in Tokyo, and Martha Brown. |
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| Description: | Three women sitting at a table appear to be proofreading documents at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | A view of the interior in the new Madison Public Library when it was located in the city hall, West Mifflin Street. Two boys read at a table in the foregro... |
| Date: | 01 1985 |
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| Description: | "This is a Milwaukee TV reporter who covered the inauguration in Madison." |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Henry C. Koch and his wife, Johanna Knab Koch, pose for a formal studio portrait. Henry C. Koch was a German born architect that designed many Wisconsin sc... |
| Date: | 06 1970 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey and his secretary in his office in the United States Capitol. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Irna Phillips is seated, and drawing a floor plan. On a table next to her are framed photographs of her children. |
| Date: | 10 1940 |
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| Description: | Irna Phillips sits at her desk dictating a letter to her secretary. |
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| Description: | Irna Phillips, with her friend and secretary Rose Cooperman. Irna is holding papers and smoking a cigarette. Rose is sitting in the background writing. |
| Date: | 11 19 1927 |
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| Description: | Young woman sitting at a typewriter, presumably a staff employee, in the office of the Indiana Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. |
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