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| Date: | 04 24 1945 |
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| Description: | Carrie King (Mrs. F.H. King), 88, of 426 University Farm Place, who came to Madison with her husband, a professor of Agricultual Physics, in 1888. Mrs. Kin... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A man, possibly John Forbes, working at a roll-top desk in his office over the old Fire Hall. A dog is sitting on a chair in the lower left. Books on the s... |
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| Description: | Three women seated in front of a roll-top office desk, possibly the office of John Forbes over the old Fire Hall. A covered typewriter on the table and a t... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the First Public Library. It was located over Pondee Grocery Store on College Avenue. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Carnegie Library, Richland Center, WI. Two people are seated at a table reading at the far left. A frieze decorates the wall above a d... |
| Date: | 07 04 1905 |
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| Description: | Children dressed as literary characters on a 4th of July float. Some children hold banners promoting the library. |
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| Description: | Woman, probably a librarian, paging through a book from a crate stamped "Wisconsin Free Library Commission, Madison, Wis." Several other books are stacked ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Booth at the Wisconsin State Fair promoting the Wisconsin Free Library Commission. |
| Date: | 06 28 1945 |
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| Description: | Professor John H. Kolb, a rural Sociologist in the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State College (later renamed the University of Wisconsin-Platteville). The Student Union is in final stages of construction, and in the foregroun... |
| Date: | 06 27 1945 |
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| Description: | Six children with a day care worker. The Abraham Lincoln School for Social Science of Chicago, Illinois, sponsored a Summer Institute in Madison for severa... |
| Date: | 07 10 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Livia Appel, Managing Editor of University of Wisconsin Press. |
| Date: | 07 01 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Fred M. Evans, Dane County Court Judge and chairman of the Governor's Commission on Human Rights. |
| Date: | 11 01 1945 |
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| Description: | Madison attorneys Dorothy Baldwin and Emily Dodge, who organized what is believed to be the only all-woman law firm in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Two men sitting in a living room. Possibly U.S. Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace and Howard McMurray, Democratic candidate for senate. |
| Date: | 05 1946 |
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| Description: | Portrait of an unknown elderly woman seated in front of a bookcase. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Author August Derleth surrounded by books at his desk. |
| Date: | 01 30 1947 |
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| Description: | Margaret (Mrs. Norman) Vea reads to Ernest Underwood, of Theresa, Lloyd Riley, and Gerald Tilley, Brooklyn, at the Convalescent Home for Children with rheu... |
| Date: | 01 30 1947 |
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| Description: | Listening to the story and music of the Nutcracker Suite are: Buddy Onash, Ft. Atkinson, Dennis Wenger, Madison, patients at the Convalescent Home for Chil... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Maynard Brichford, Illinois State Archivist and noted authority on archives and record management issues, photographed earlier in his career in the archive... |
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