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Madison Free Library

Date: 01 28 1954
Description: A student is looking through the card catalog (or what the newspaper calls "the library's key, a simple cross-filer system") at the Madison Free Library at...
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Madison Free Library

Date: 01 28 1954
Description: A man is reading a book while sitting in a chair at the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street.
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Madison Free Library

Date: 01 28 1954
Description: A girl is sitting and working with material in the reference room of the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street.
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Madison Free Library

Date: 01 28 1954
Description: A man is studying material from the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street.
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Madison Free Library

Date: 01 28 1954
Description: View between bookshelves towards a man finding a place to pause and rest in the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street.
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Madison Free Library Bookmobile

Date: 02 09 1954
Description: Alice Volker, a city librarian, boarding the library's bookmobile to start the day's rounds. The bookmobile is an outfitted bus.
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Madison Free Library Bookmobile

Date: 02 09 1954
Description: African-American bookmobile driver, Bert Rogers, checking for carbon monoxide in the bookmobile because the motor is kept running for heat. The bookmobile ...
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Madison Free Library Bookmobile

Date: 02 09 1954
Description: The Madison Free Library bookmobile is pulling up in the Lakeview Heights neighborhood, a new city housing development. The bookmobile is an outfitted bus....
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Madison Free Library Bookmobile

Date: 02 08 1954
Description: Seen through the inside of a window in the bookmobile are Patricia Stoffel, her daughter Nancy, and a neighbor boy, Mark Albertus, approaching the back doo...
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Madison Free Library Bookmobile

Date: 02 09 1954
Description: Sylvia Nuckles checking out a book from Bert Rogers, the driver and circulation staff for the Madison Free Library bookmobile.
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Madison Free Library Bookmobile

Date: 02 09 1954
Description: Timmy and Joan Becker are reading a book by the shelves in the Madison Free Library bookmobile, which is parked in the Lakeview Heights neighborhood, a new...
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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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Madison Public Library Groundbreaking Ceremony

Date: 10 29 1963
Description: Groundbreaking ceremony for the new Madison Public Library building at the south corner of W. Mifflin and N. Fairchild Streets. Rev. Joseph Brown is standi...
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Librarian Helen Farr Retires After 41-Year Service

Date: 08 13 1957
Description: Image is of Helen Farr, a Madison librarian who is retiring after forty-one years of service. For the past twenty-one years she has been the Chief Libraria...
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We Saw You . . . at the Library

Date: 09 22 1957
Description: A young woman is peering into a drawer of the card catalog of the Madison Public Library.
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We Saw You . . . at the Library

Date: 09 22 1957
Description: A man at the Madison Public Library is sitting at a table with reference books while using a pencil on paper, doing research. A stand for atlases is behind...
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We Saw You . . . at the Library

Date: 09 22 1957
Description: A man sitting and reading from a book at the Madison Public Central Library.
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We Saw You . . . at the Library

Date: 09 22 1957
Description: An older man wearing thick glasses and a wool blazer looks closely at a newspaper on a rod.
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Dr. John A. Schindler Family — Portrait at Home

Date: 10 24 1957
Description: Dr. Schindler at home sitting at his writing desk in his library and study. The caption says he is wearing a deep red silk smoking jacket and that he took ...
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National Mass Communications History Center Opening

Date: 01 25 1958
Description: Visitors at the formal opening of the Wisconsin State Historical Society's National Mass Communications History Center. From left to right are Walter Fraut...

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