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| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Frederick Jackson Turner with his History Seminar in an alcove of the Historical Society rooms in the third Wisconsin State Capitol, about 1893-1894. Back ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Norwegian family posing with their household possessions, in front of their home. The man dressed in military uniform is a Civil War veteran. Madison, Wisc... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View from front of classroom of children sitting at desks at the Mendota Beach School. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Legislative Reference Library. |
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| Description: | A group of young students seated in their classroom holding books as the teacher stands at the back of the room. The title of the book is "The Progressive ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A young child examines a children's book with her grandmother. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Office of the State Board of Control, Wisconsin Reformatory, Charitable and Penal Institutions in the third Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | John Muir's desk clock. The clock lighted his lamp and fire and opened the right book for him to study. At the end of half an hour it changed the book. The... |
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| Description: | A stonecutter, a cooper or smith (identified by the tools of their trade) and a girl with a pail are standing on the left in contrast to a group of ladies ... |
| Date: | 11 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Interior of Madison Public Library, 206 North Carroll Street. The view shows the Reference Room, Information Desk, one librarian and two patrons. |
| Date: | 11 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Interior of Madison Public Library, 206 North Carroll Street, showing Reading Room, magazine display shelves and history book section. |
| Date: | 10 14 1936 |
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| Description: | Dr. Louise Phelps Kellogg sitting at her desk. Kellogg was an historian at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 11 20 1934 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin Pres. Glenn Frank sitting in a swivel chair reading: "The open door at the home." |
| Date: | 08 24 1934 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist. |
| Date: | 11 16 1932 |
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| Description: | University League benefit bridge tea at University of Wisconsin Pres. Glenn Frank's home, 130 N. Prospect Avenue, junior division in the President's librar... |
| Date: | 09 23 1932 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Kate Schmedeman, Mayor Albert G. Schmedeman's wife, sitting in a chair beside a fireplace reading a book in her home, 504 Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 06 16 1932 |
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| Description: | Harry & Ada Moseley's book-lined living room with fireplace, 616 N. Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 03 24 1932 |
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| Description: | Living room at Chester and Louise Snell house, 822 Miami Pass, Nakoma. |
| Date: | 03 31 1932 |
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| Description: | Library in Dr. Bleyer residence, 423 N. Carroll Street. |
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