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| Date: | 02 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Modernization in the old Periodical Room (#227) including a view of the beams used to strengthen the mezzanine floor for the storage of the McCormick Colle... |
| 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: | 1912 |
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| Description: | The Historical Society Library delivery desk and librarians Mary S. Foster, Esther DeBoos, and Edna C. Adams, 1912. At the time, patrons and students were... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Wisconsin Historical Society library. |
| Date: | 1996 |
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| Description: | Color portrait of the Historical Society staff. This image is a humorous version with balloons of another image which was taken for the cover of a special ... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | View of Wisconsin Historical Society librarians filing catalog cards. This image is undated, but it was probably taken during the 1970s. |
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| Description: | University students studying in the wisconsin Historical Society's library reading room. This view is undated, but the presence of the microfilm viewing ro... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the length of the Historical Society Library Reading Room, including tables, chairs, lamps and skylight. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The large service flag that honored all University of Wisconsin students who served during World War I on display in the Reading Room. The students themsel... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Detail view of the two doors at the north end of the Wisconsin Historical Society Library reading room which provided access to the separate periodical rea... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin Historical Society Library Reading Room with people studying at tables. |
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| Description: | The original collection of fifty books that formed the foundation of the Wisconsin Historical Society Library in 1853. The books are displayed on shelves i... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from stairway of the ornate Otis elevator in the Wisconsin Historical Society building. This elevator was installed as original equipment in ... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A view of the ornate Otis elevator originally installed in the Historical Society building in 1900. This picture, taken on the second floor during remodeli... |
| Date: | 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Dr. Clifford L. Lord posed standing examining large bound volumes from the Cudahy papers in the collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 06 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Carl Sandburg posing with two of the guides at Wade house during his visit to the restored stagecoach inn for its dedication as a historic site. Speaking a... |
| Date: | 04 03 1968 |
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| Description: | Wesley W. Jung at the Jung Carriage Museum. Mr. Jung is standing with one hand on a sleigh. On the side of the box the lettering, "J. & W. Jung Co." appear... |
| Date: | 04 03 1968 |
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| Description: | Wesley W. Jung at the Jung Carriage Museum. Mr. Jung is standing on the right in front of a circus wagon. Painted inside of an oval on the side is a circus... |
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| Description: | Photographs illustrating the general history of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Included are interior and exterior views of facilities and build... |
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