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Reading
Read a good and understand what you read. Read when you are young and when you are old. Read by yourself and with others. Read quietly and read out loud. Read in your bedroom, in the lunch room and on the bus on the way home. Enjoy reading a good book or text.
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Book still bank
Artist: Artist Unknown (Possibly England)
Date: 19th century
Medium: Dolls, Toys and Games
Size: 6 1/4 x 3 7/8 x 1 1/16 in. (15.88 x 9.84 x 2.7 cm)
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Accession #: 2003.236.875
Nothing is better than enjoying reading a good book! Reading takes your mind places!
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Boy Reading, Frogtown
Artist: Wing Young Huie
Date: 1994
Medium: Photographs, Photograph
Size: 8 11/16 x 12 15/16 in. (22.07 x 32.86 cm) (image)11 x 14 1/16 in. (27.94 x 35.72 cm) (sheet)
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Accession #: 98.22.2
Who can read? Where is a good place to get comfortable enjoying a good book?
<div class="unzoomed_thumbnail" style="width:140px; height:93.515625px;"><img class="inline_img fake_1.49707602339" id="zoomer_103747_52909iip_loading" src="http://www.artsconnected.org/media/aa/c7/a9f6d45b089d671624ba78f50723/140/120/103747.jpg" class="iip_loading" title="" alt="Boy Reading, Frogtown, Wing Young Huie" height_offset="0" /></div>
Two Girls Reading, Frogtown
Artist: Wing Young Huie
Date: 1995
Medium: Photographs, Photograph
Size: 8 5/8 x 13 1/16 in. (21.91 x 33.18 cm) (image)10 15/16 x 14 1/16 in. (27.78 x 35.72 cm) (sheet)
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Accession #: 99.96.23
When the weather is nice, reading outside is relaxing and fun!
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Mother And Children
Artist: Robert Sterl
Date: 19th century
Medium: Prints, Print
Size: 3 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (9.53 x 11.43 cm) (image)
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Accession #: P.402
Do you read with your family? If so, when and where do you read with your family?
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Beauty and the Beast
Artist: George Louis Du Maurier
Date: 19th century
Medium: Drawings and Watercolors, Drawing
Size: 4 3/8 x 7 1/4 in. (11.11 x 18.42 cm) (image)
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Accession #: 54.33.6
What is the setting of this picture?
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Harvie A. Garver, Duluth, Minnesota
Artist: Julia Marshall
Date: 1938
Medium: Photographs, Photograph
Size: 6 5/8 x 4 13/16 in. (16.83 x 12.22 cm) (image)13 13/16 x 10 1/16 in. (35.08 x 25.56 cm) (mount)
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Accession #: 87.93.4
Adult grown-ups read other types of text, too.
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Inland Steel Mining Company, Virginia, Minnesota
Artist: David Parker
Date: 2000
Medium: Photographs, Photograph
Size: 8 x 12 in. (20.32 x 30.48 cm) (image)10 7/8 x 13 15/16 in. (27.62 x 35.4 cm) (sheet)
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Accession #: 2001.283.27
When might be a good time to read if you have a job?
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Subway Portrait
Artist: Walker Evans
Date: 1938-1941
Medium: Photographs, Photograph
Size: 4 7/8 x 7 3/4 in. (12.38 x 19.69 cm) (image)5 1/8 x 8 1/2 in. (13.02 x 21.59 cm) (mount)
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Accession #: 75.25.10
What kind of transportation is a subway?
On his way home from work a businessmen can read the newspaper to catch up on events in the community, city, state and country.
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Miss Suzie Porter, Harlem
Artist: James VanDerZee
Date: 1915 (printed 1974)
Medium: Photographs, Photograph
Size: 7 7/16 x 6 1/8 in. (18.89 x 15.56 cm) (image)14 15/16 x 12 1/2 in. (37.94 x 31.75 cm) (mount)
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Accession #: 74.36.5
What do you notice about cultures of people who read?
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Girl in Chrysanthemum Time
Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni ; Wakasaya Yoichi
Date: 18th-19th century
Medium: Prints, Print
Size: 12 7/8 x 8 3/4 in. (32.7 x 22.2 cm) (image, sheet)
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Accession #: P.75.51.229
What language do people in China speak, read and write?
How is it different than English?
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Plate from Los Caprichos [As far back as his grandfather]
Artist: Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes
Date: 1797-1798
Medium: Prints, Print
Size: 8 1/2 x 6 in. (21.59 x 15.24 cm) (plate)
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Accession #: P.83.57.39
What genre does this picture show?
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