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| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Reuben Gold Thwaites, secretary of the State Historical Society, at his desk in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. Thwaites succeeded Lym... |
| 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: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Halle Steensland poses in his lavishly decorated library at his house on 315 North Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 11 29 1953 |
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| Description: | Ruth Anderson, the music librarian at the Madison Public Library, adds another phonograph record to the library's phonographic record collection. |
| Date: | 12 01 1955 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin Agronomy Professor Laurence F. Graber posing in front of shelves of agronomy books in his office library. |
| 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: | 07 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Interior of Madison Public Library's new bookmobile. Librarian Doris Cruger is sitting at the desk inside Madison Public Library's new bookmobile. Standing... |
| Date: | 07 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the new Madison Public Library bookmobile parked in front of the City-County building on Monona Boulevard. |
| Date: | 07 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Mayor Ivan Nestingen; Head Librarian Helen Farr; and Library Board Member A. Kermit Frater stand outside Madison Public Library's new bookmobile. An uniden... |
| Date: | 09 25 1957 |
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| Description: | Mary McHugh; Marion Ludden; and Alice Wood, editor of the AAUW Bulletin, enjoy tea in the College Club library. |
| Date: | 02 08 1956 |
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| Description: | At the opening of an exhibition of Japanese prints at the U.W. Memorial Library are, left to right, Kishio Matoba, art teacher at Central High School and m... |
| Date: | 03 11 1961 |
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| Description: | Library patrons crowded together at the card catalog. The photograph is one of a series showing the crowded conditions at the Madison Public Library at 206... |
| Date: | 03 11 1961 |
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| Description: | Men and women crowd around two library tables while reading. The photograph is one of a series showing the crowded conditions at the Madison Public Library... |
| Date: | 08 16 1966 |
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| Description: | Dane County Library Service Director, Donald Lamb and Librarian Barbara Larson standing outdoors in front of the Bookmobile parked at the Madison Public Li... |
| Date: | 01 28 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 28 1954 |
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| Description: | A man is reading a book while sitting in a chair at the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 01 28 1954 |
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| Description: | A man is studying material from the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 02 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Alice Volker, a city librarian, boarding the library's bookmobile to start the day's rounds. The bookmobile is an outfitted bus. |
| Date: | 10 29 1963 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 22 1957 |
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| 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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