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| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | An International Auto Wagon with a rear compartment containing shelves of books is parked outside a library. A man is sitting in the driver's seat, and a ... |
| Date: | 03 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Display window at Speth's Clothing Store, 222 State Street, featuring Wembley ties and Alice in Wonderland characters. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 08 31 1954 |
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| Description: | Night view of Brown's Book Shop, 673 State Street, with display windows. |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Walter and Virginia Ross relaxing indoors by the fireplace at Ross Teal Lake Lodge. Caption reads: "Mr. & Mrs. W.R. Ross at Ross' Teal Lake Lodge on Teal L... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | A book cover for "Mineral Point: A History" by George Fiedler. The cover illustration is a Max Fernekes print of Shake Rag Street, a popular street for Cor... |
| 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.... |
| 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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Sketch of two huge round revolving book stacks with an elevator. This was apparently a "library of the future" idea and was probably never actually built. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 07 28 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of H.H. Gerth, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin. Gerth was born and grew up in Kassel, Germany, and escaped about s... |
| Date: | 08 01 1944 |
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| Description: | Students Dorothy Vecke, Milwaukee, and Kuo Chung-Ying, China, examine the bookcase that was the original Wisconsin State Historical Society library of the ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | The living room of Fred and Annie Storer Brown's home (built 1888), 121 East Gilman Street. Annie Hepworth Storer Brown sits by the fireplace. |
| Date: | 12 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Reverend Erling Ylvisaker, pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Cross, Milwaukee Street. He preached to the returning veterans... |
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