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| Description: | Exterior view of the Waukesha Public Library. There is a cannon on the lawn near a tree. Caption reads: "Public Library, Waukesha, Wis." |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Front exterior view of the Sun Prairie Public Library with a police car parked in front of it. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Dr. Josephine Harper, later Josephine Harper Darling, archivist at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, and editor of the guide to the papers of Lyma... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Artist William Ashby McCloy working on his Wisconsin Centennial murals in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin building. |
| Date: | 05 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Kenneth Duckett and Alan E. Kent, historians employed by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, using the microfilm reader in the Society's old, first ... |
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| Description: | Clifford L. Lord, director of the State Historical Society (on the right), seated with Governor Walter Goodland and Mrs. Goodland at an event at the Wiscon... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Historical Society Library Circulation Desk and staff. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A view of the Library Reading Room from the Visitors Gallery in 1948, showing crowded conditions. Cosmetic changes to the appearance of the room included ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Temporary storage on the Visitors Gallery in the Wisconsin Historical Society blocks the view of the Library Reading Room. This storage was necessary beca... |
| 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: | 09 24 1947 |
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| Description: | Five women enjoying the library at Elizabeth Waters Dormitory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The portrait on the wall at the far end is of ... |
| Date: | 11 20 1947 |
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| Description: | Madison Free Library, 206 North Carroll Street. The library was built with Carnegie money and opened in 1906. The name changed to Madison Public Library ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of clock made by John Muir while a student at the University of Wisconsin in 1860. Children are looking at the John Muir clock in the museum at ... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Madison Free Library, 206 North Carroll Street. There are two men standing on the sidewalk outside of the library. In addition, there are several automobil... |
| Date: | 12 16 1948 |
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| Description: | Eleanor Pascale, 819 Irving Place, and Dr. Margaret Prouty, 26 Breese Terrace, view the Wisconsin State Journal Photo Exhibit at the Madison Free Li... |
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