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| Date: | 02 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Library staff members at the new consolidated service desk in the Historical Society Library Reading Room. Microfilm cubicles have not yet been installed ... |
| 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: | 02 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Scaffolding in the Wisconsin Historical Society Library Reading Room constructed for the replacement of the glass skylights and original light fixtures. On... |
| 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: | 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... |
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| Description: | A worker on scaffolding installs ceiling tiles and new lights, concealing the plaster coffers in the library lobby of the Wisconsin Historical Society. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Wisconsin Historical Society library. |
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| Description: | View from below of the Wisconsin Historical Society's Library skylight. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Wisconsin Historical Society's library with a view of the card catalogs. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Wisconsin Historical Society showing stairway. |
| Date: | 04 01 1957 |
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| Description: | The State Historical Society of Wisconsin's Historymobile at the Clark Service Station, 2631 University Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Tschudy (Jake and Irene),... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | A candid portrait of Paul Vanderbilt in the field with his large format camera set up. He is standing next to a State Historical Society of Wisconsin vehic... |
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