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| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Israel Greene Beaumont House located at 203 South Jefferson Street. Anne ("Aunt Nan") Brett is seated in the south wing room. Beaumont's house was demolis... |
| Date: | 04 30 1952 |
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| Description: | Moseley's Incorporated, 24 East Mifflin Street, display window featuring "Better Homes and Gardens" books. |
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| Description: | Bruce Barton posing with Cecil B. Demille, who is holding a copy of Bartons' book "The Man Nobody Knows". |
| Date: | 08 31 1954 |
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| Description: | Night view of Brown's Book Shop, 673 State Street, with display windows. |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Mrs. Belle Knickerbocker of Shullsburg, Wisconsin. She is holding a book in her left... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Page from the book "The Garden Party of Vegetable Folks" featuring Caroline Cauliflower, who will sing. |
| Date: | 07 20 1960 |
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| Description: | First floor library in Lucian M. Hanks house, 525 Wisconsin Avenue. |
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| Description: | A carte-de-visite of a slave sitting with three children. The text at the bottom read: "Learning is Wealth. Wilson, Charley, Rebecca, & Rosa. Slaves from N... |
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| Description: | Temporary quarters of the Legislative Reference Library in the fourth floor of the South Wing of the present Capitol. LRB later (ca. 1914-1917) moved to t... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Chester Thordarson seated with books and a pencil. |
| Date: | 10 23 1956 |
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| Description: | Betty J. DiSalvo reading good night stories to her children, Michael DiSalvo (age 6) and Mark DiSalvo (age 4) after having solicited money for 27 Red Feath... |
| Date: | 12 20 1952 |
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| Description: | A Madison Exchange Club member giving an Elsie comic book to three girls after they put money in an old bathtub as a Christmas donation to the Salvation Ar... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the John Jermain Library reading room in Sag Harbor, New York. Text on photograph reads: "Interior Of John Jermain Library, Sag Harbor, N.... |
| Date: | 02 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Corporal Harold Haven standing on a stack of packaged books, handing packages to Sargeant Russell West at the United States Armed Forces Insitute supply de... |
| Date: | 03 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Martha Hardin reading to Janet Brahn and Betty Thomsen at the nursery school established on the third floor of the home of University president, Charles A.... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Joseph Mann Public Library, showing the south half of the reading room. The building opened in 1914. Land was funded by a $1000 donati... |
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| Description: | View of group posing on the lawn in front of a two-story frame house. Four men in the background on the left are standing near two teams of horses; three m... |
| Date: | 04 05 1944 |
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| Description: | A committee of Madison women musicians, sitting around a table, selecting music books and scores to supplement the Madison Public Library collection are, l... |
| Date: | 06 27 1944 |
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| Description: | Four children at the Lowell School branch participating in Madison Free Library's summer workshop projects. Left to right: Darrell Premo, Jean LeFebvre, Pa... |
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