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| Description: | An engraving of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Philip Livingston, and Roger Sherman, drafters of the Declaration of Independence gathered... |
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| Description: | Factory workers reading in the Deering Works Club library. A librarian appears to be checking books in and out to a line of employees. |
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| Description: | Office(?) workers reading in the library at the Deering Works Club. In the background the librarian (seated at desk) appears to be checking books in and ou... |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait engraving of George Washington seated with books and saber, from a painting by Chappel. |
| 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: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Dr. Joseph Smith reads at his desk in his office in the Wisconsin Valley Trust Building. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The cover of "Tom Swift and His Airship or the Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud." |
| Date: | 10 1910 |
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| Description: | The cover of John T. Trowbridge's poetry book, "Darius Green and his Flying Machine," illustrated by Wallace Goldsmith and published by Houghton Mifflin Co... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Office of the State Board of Control, Wisconsin Reformatory, Charitable and Penal Institutions in the third Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | "Doomed Demons" by Eustace L. Adams, part of the Air Combat Stories for Boys series published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1932 and 1946. The cover art is b... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | A stonecutter, a cooper or smith (identified by the tools of their trade) and a girl with a pail are standing on the left in contrast to a group of ladies ... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Two young children relax in their pajamas while reading "A Child's Story of the Nativity." |
| 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: | 04 28 1961 |
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| Description: | Three boys stand at the front of their classroom and read aloud the story, "The Funny Hats" while wearing funny hats. |
| 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: | 03 28 1941 |
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| Description: | Photo Copy Service, 206 East Main Street, with "Camera Fans" window display of photographic equipment and supplies and Little Technical Library books on ph... |
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