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| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Young children reading at the library. A librarian works near the circulation desk in the background. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seating cap... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Patent attorney Charles L. Goss (seated), with clerk Arthur Muerless in the law offices of Winkler, Flanders, Smith, Bottum, & Vilas. |
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| Description: | Interior view of Upham residence. There are bookshelves along the back wall. A large, arched doorway leads into another room on the right, with a glass-fro... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Photographer Herman Taylor's children sit at a little table in front of the hearth in the library. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Interior of library with large open reading area and long tables and Windsor style chairs, a two-story high ceiling, and a balcony around the second level.... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A librarian checks out a book to a young girl, while other children sit at tables reading in the background. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seat... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A woman and man sit at a round table in a public library reading. An office cubicle and magazine rack are visible in the background. When it opened in 1938... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Three boys in a public library looking for books in the main stacks. A table and magazine rack are in the foreground. When it opened in 1938, the Library h... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A group of children, boys and girls, reading at tables in a sunny reading room in the public library. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seating cap... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A group of children sit at tables in a library reading books and magazines while a librarian looks on from her circulation desk. When it opened in 1938, th... |
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| Description: | An unknown man is posed on a couch holding a book that has been renamed "Goon History, Volume 3." |
| Date: | 02 1908 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Greene Memorial Library of Milwaukee-Downer College (now the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). The image is part of a 14-page pamphl... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the South Milwaukee Public Library. Sign on librarian's desk reads: "Low speaking will be appreciated." Signs on bookshelves read: "Natura... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the South Milwaukee Public Library. A sign on a table reads: "Story Hour Saturday 11 A.M." There is a large, brick fireplace along the far... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Milwaukee Public Library, showing reading tables on the ground floor, and balconies and railings of two levels above. Large stone colu... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Milwaukee Public Library. Note below the image reads: " Milwaukee Public Library, Children's Room." There are reading tables and chair... |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat sits in profile in a darkened room with a bookshelf behind his back. |
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| Description: | "Formal" full-length portrait of Bedard in the Brady Street "Lab." Harold Gauer states she was, "...a sweet and reserved girl, with no pretense whatsoever.... |
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| Description: | Robert and Angie Vail pose with drinks at a nautical themed costume party. |
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