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| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Dr. Joseph Smith reads at his desk in his office in the Wisconsin Valley Trust Building. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 08 1925 |
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| Description: | Mr. Wolfe sitting in a chair reading Successful Farming magazine to a young child on his lap. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Shirley Mecha, regular teacher at Meadow Brook School, helping migrant students use resources in the "library corner." |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Simon Overby at home in their parlor with books, family portraits, and an organ with sheet music. Mr. Overby sits in a chair with a cane and a... |
| 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: | 12 17 1939 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Boys Choir wearing choir robes, holding song books and singing on stairs at the First Methodist Church, located at 203 Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 03 04 1937 |
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| Description: | Living room in Coombs house, Lakewood. |
| 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: | 09 10 1936 |
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| Description: | Storage area in rear of Brown's Book Shop, 643 State Street. |
| Date: | 04 26 1936 |
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| Description: | Brown's Book Shop, interior view looking toward the rear, 643 State Street. |
| Date: | 04 26 1936 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of Brown's Book Shop, looking towards the rear, located at 643 State Street. |
| Date: | 04 26 1936 |
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| Description: | Brown's Book Shop, interior view looking toward the new book room and rental library, 643 State Street. |
| Date: | 04 26 1936 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the new book room and rental library of Browns Book Shop at 643 State Street. |
| 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. |
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