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Bridge Tea at Glenn Frank House

Date: 11 16 1932
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...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Office of SHSW Librarian

Date: 05 1896
Description: The office of Historical Society Librarian Minnie Oakley in the third Wisconsin State Capitol. From 1866 to 1883 the Historical Society occupied the entire...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Office of SHSW Librarian

Date: 05 1896
Description: The office of Historical Society Librarian Isaac Bradley in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. Bradley, who joined the Society staff in 1...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Stacks of the Historical Society Library

Date: 05 1896
Description: Minnie Oakley and Florence Baker Hayes (reaching for a book), two Historical Society librarians, during the period when the Society was housed in the South...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Thwaites' Office

Date: 1897
Description: Reuben Gold Thwaites, secretary of the State Historical Society, at his desk in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. Thwaites succeeded Lym...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Historical Society Librarian's Office

Date: 04 1892
Description: Daniel Steele Durrie, librarian of the Wisconsin Historical Society, seated at his desk in the South Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol. This photograph ...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Office of SHSW Librarian

Date: 1892
Description: Minnie Oakley, assistant librarian of the Wisconsin Historical Society, seated at her desk in the South Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol. This photogra...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Stacks of the Historical Library

Date: 1898
Description: Cluttered work space of the librarian responsible for the Historical Society's newspaper collection during the period when the Society occupied rooms in th...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Office of Historical Society Librarian

Date: 1892
Description: Emma Hawley, a Historical Society librarian, at her desk in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. After the Society purchased its first type...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Rooms of the Historical Society

Date: 1898
Description: The Genealogical Alcove in the Historical Society's quarters in the third Wisconsin State Capitol. Although the Society had only moved into these rooms in ...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Office of SHSW Historian

Date: 1900
Description: Historian Emma Helen Blair, who supervised the Historical Society's maps and manuscripts collection during the 1890s and who aided the editorial projects o...
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Old Library at Hillside Home School

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Description: A woman working in the library at Hillside Home school, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Library Stacks

Date: 1948
Description: Young man studying at a table in the library stacks of the Wisconsin Historical Society library.
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John Jermain Library

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Description: Interior view of the John Jermain Library reading room in Sag Harbor, New York. Text on photograph reads: "Interior Of John Jermain Library, Sag Harbor, N....
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Outdoor Meeting at Highlander School

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Description: A group of people sitting on the grass and chairs outdoors for a meeting with the Highlander Library in the background. From left to right: Father of Myles...
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Richland Center Carnegie Library

Date: 1911
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...
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Thordarson Library with Fireplace

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Description: Interior view of the Thordarson library featuring a massive fireplace with two men posing on either side of it. The building is of stone, with arched windo...
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Thordarson Library with Chandelier

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Description: Interior view of the Thordarson library with bookcases and a spectacular chandelier with buffalo horns. The building is of stone, with arched windows.
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Sturgeon Bay Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Sturgeon Bay Public Library. Prominent elements are reading tables, librarian's desk, bookshelves.
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Library at Wadsworth Hall

Date: 1910
Description: Interior view of the library at Wadsworth Hall. There is one large table with two lamps and several mismatched chairs. Sculptures and houseplants also deco...

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