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Girl Sitting on Woman's Lap

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Description: A young girl pages through a book while sitting on a woman's lap. Another woman wearing gloves and a fur coat hands the sitting girl a book while another g...
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Madison Public Library

Date: 1913
Description: Interior view of the Madison Public Library, circulation desk. Cardboard backing reads: "1913, Main Loan Desk." A large group of women in winter coats and ...
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Reading to the Elderly

Date: 04 01 1960
Description: A fashionably dressed woman is sharing a book with an elderly woman.
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West High School Girls' Club Christmas Activities

Date: 12 08 1954
Description: Four girls singing while looking down at their caroling books and holding candles and dressed for the outdoors. They are Diane Gensichen, Sally Tisdale, Su...
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Traveling Library

Date: 1931
Description: Two women select books from the opened back of a traveling branch library in a truck parked on a street.
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Autographing Tea

Date: 09 21 1957
Description: Three women are attending an autographing tea at Graham's Book and Stationary Store, 3238 University Avenue. They are, left to right: Helen Fairchild, Hele...
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Wilbur J. Cohen Swearing-In as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

Date: 05 16 1968
Description: Wilbur Cohen raises his left hand as he is sworn in as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Social Security was included in his responsibilities as ...
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La Follette, Harper, Roe & Zimmerman Law Office

Date: 1899
Description: Two views of the interior of the La Follette, Harper, Roe & Zimmerman law office. Mr. Zimmerman is sitting in his inner office; the lady in the foreground ...
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Outdoor Group Portrait of European Americans

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a very large group of unidentified men, women, and children posing standing in front of a wooden building.
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Girl with Mitt Romney Book

Date: 10 30 2012
Description: A girl wearing a coat with patches for Tommy Thompson for Senator and Feehan for State Senator stands holding a Mitt Romney book. Her sister stands behind ...
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Mother and Daughters at Rally

Date: 10 30 2012
Description: A mother and two daughters pose outside of a Paul Ryan Rally Event at the La Crosse County Republican Headquarters. One girl holds a Mitt Romney book. The ...
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Family Portrait of Mary Turvill Mcconnell, Elizabeth Turvill Wood, and Jessie Turvill Thwaites

Date: 09 1899
Description: Outdoor family portrait of Mary Turvill McConnell, Elizabeth Turvill Wood, and Jessie Turvill Thwaites. They are sitting on a porch in front of windows wit...
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Portrait of an Unknown Women

Date: 1899
Description: Full-length portrait of an unknown women standing in a doorway. The tall doorway has a drape on a pole just underneath a transom window or screen. A coat i...
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Wisconsin Circuit Court

Date: 1895
Description: Wisconsin Supreme Court in session at the second hearing of the trial of Emery, Lord and Houston for murder. The case also had two Circuit Court hearings.<...
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Mrs. A.G. Zimmerman

Date: 1905
Description: Mrs. A.G. Zimmerman posing in a home on W. Washington Avenue. She is standing reading a document in a parlor with a piano.
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Madison Free Library Bookmobile

Date: 02 09 1954
Description: Ruth Culliney and Jeanette Dega browse books on the shelves of the Madison Free Library bookmobile parked in the Lakeview Heights neighborhood, a new city ...
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We Saw You . . . at Madison Libraries

Date: 03 05 1958
Description: The Madison Bookmobile makes eleven stops in the city. Shown in the bookmobile are (left to right): Mrs. Tom Newport and son, Jim (5437 Dahlen Drive); libr...
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U.W. Co-Ed Engineering Student Lynn Stodola

Date: 09 30 1958
Description: Chemical engineering student Lynn Stodola, Black River Falls, one of the few female engineering students at the U.W. College of Engineering, stands in the ...
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Eleven-Month University School Year Proposal Reaction

Date: 03 03 1959
Description: This photograph accompanied a story about the student reaction to a proposal by Governor Gaylord Nelson for an 11-month school year at the University of Wi...
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Wonderful World of Paperback Books

Date: 03 25 1959
Description: An aisle of paperback books in a Madison bookstore. Two women are standing in the aisle.

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