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| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | A man looks through papers at a desk while a woman, most likely a secretary, takes notes. The man and woman may have worked for an International Harvester ... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | A woman at an office desk reads a pamphlet entitled, "What is Quality in a Motor Truck?" A male worker speaks on the telephone in the background. The two m... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | A man holding a cigar is sitting at a desk looking at an International Harvester trucks booklet. A copy of International Trail magazine is on the de... |
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| Description: | A group of manual laborers are reading books near a tent. "TVA" [Tennessee Valley Authority] has been collaged over the image. Part of a series of Highland... |
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| Description: | A family reading the newspaper "Union Farmer" together. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Paul H. Ryan, member of the Menomonie High School class of 1905, depicted as an attorney, sitting at a desk with his feet up. The bottom of his shoes bear ... |
| Date: | 10 01 1938 |
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| Description: | J. Robert Taylor cleaning a furnace. He has a broom and a small brush in hand, a pipe in his mouth, and a dirty rag placed on his head. He is reading a doc... |
| Date: | 10 01 1938 |
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| Description: | Taylor is relaxing, sitting in a chair tilted back, and smoking his pipe and reading his paper in front of an open heater. A kerchief is covering his head.... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Men and women sitting at desks in a large, open office at International Harvester's Neuss branch in Germany. One man in the back is standing and reading a ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Office workers at desks in International Harvester's Hamburg branch house in Germany. |
| Date: | 07 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Ginny Hall, a West High School senior, has a summer job caring for Sharon and Sandra Sinn, the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Sinn, 3405 Blackhawk Dr... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A man sitting in an armchair with his feet propped on a bed, is reading an International sales-engineering bulletin and smoking a pipe. |
| 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 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... |
| 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... |
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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). |
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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. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Isaiah Pyant, C.I.O. member, sitting in an armchair in his home reading the newspaper. |
| 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 ... |
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