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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The Daniel Webster carriage on display in the Historical Society's museum in the third Wisconsin State Capitol. At that time the Historical Society's quart... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Artifacts from the New Richmond tornado on display in the Historical Society's museum in the Wisconsin State Capitol. The display of such curiosities, now ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A view of the Library Reading Room in 1955, after the modernization of the 1950s was complete. Most prominent is the division of the room into functional ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Young man studying at a table in the library stacks of the Wisconsin Historical Society library. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Cyanotype print of ceiling skylights in the library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Front entrance of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Awnings are on the windows of the first and second floors. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin from across Library Mall with awnings visible on the first and second floor. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Maynard Brichford, Illinois State Archivist and noted authority on archives and record management issues, photographed earlier in his career in the archive... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of south stairway and elevator on the first floor of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin building. |
| Date: | 05 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Close-up of the Library Circulation Desk and librarians Esther DeBoos and Margaret Gleason (right) behind the desk at the Wisconsin Historical Society. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View of the Historical Society Library Reading Room taken from the Visitors Gallery. Although undated, the photograph was probably taken shortly after the... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Historical Society Library Reading Room and the Visitors Gallery after their modernization during the mid-1950s. Prominent among the visible changes are a... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Alternate view of the modernization of the Historical Society Library Reading Room completed in the mid-1950s. Most prominent here is the division of the ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Construction work in the Historical Society Library Reading Room in preparation for installing linoleum floor tiles. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Scaffolding in the Historical Society Library Reading Room used to replace the art glass in the skylights and the original brass ceiling lights. Flouresce... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Ceiling high scaffolding in the Wisconsin Historical Society Library reading room, with a man and a woman attempting to study at the tables in the foregrou... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Lucille Kellar, coordinator of the Historical Society's McCormick Collection, with the new cases for the collection. She is standing outside the north entr... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Library Reading Room as completed in 1901, showing skylights and ceiling fixtures, library tables and lights, and many University of Wisconsin students at ... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | SHSW Periodical Reading Room, showing mezzanine stacks, original tables and lamps, and coffered ceiling treatment. Among the University of Wisconsin studen... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin Historical Society Library from the University Library's delivery area, showing the coffered ceiling and the mahogany card catalog. A... |
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