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Library School Students and Staff

Date: 04 16 1945
Description: Group portrait of University of Wisconsin-Madison Library School students and staff taken in front of their classroom building, 811 State Street. The man o...
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Washington School Library Class

Date: 10 20 1930
Description: Interior view of the Washington school library class for the 5th and 6th grade.
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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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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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Child Salon of Art

Date: 05 07 1944
Description: Billy Gorman, third grade student at Emerson School, is showing Robert Murray, sixth grade student at Lowell School, his picture displayed in the Child Sal...
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L.A. Blackman Outside Highlander Library

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Description: L.A. Blackman, from Elloree, South Carolina, standing outside of Highlander Library.
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Two People Outside of Highlander Library

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Description: A man is reading a book on a bench, while a woman is standing in front of the entrance to the Highlander Library. A small group of people can be seen insid...
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaking at Highlander

Date: 08 1957
Description: Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at Highlander's 25th Anniversary, August-September, inside Highlander Library.
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25th Anniversary of Highlander

Date: 09 02 1957
Description: 25th Anniversary event in the Highlander Folk School Library. Pictured are Rosa Parks, Myles Horton, Aubrey Williams, and Martin Luther King, Jr. among ot...
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National Book Week

Date: 11 16 1948
Description: "Books Tell the Story" display at Wisconsin High School as part of the observance of National Book Week. Students looking at display are, left to right: Ph...
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Children with Bookmobile at Playground

Date: 08 30 1938
Description: Children line up at the entrance to the Superior Bookmobile trailer. Other children ride bicycles and play in a playground in the background. The original...
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Superior Bookmobile

Date: 08 30 1938
Description: A group of children lines up outside the entrance to the Superior Bookmobile (an International truck), parked in a playground area. Other children holding ...
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Youth Summer Reading Group at Madison Free Library

Date: 06 23 1950
Description: Ten Madison school children, all fourth through sixth graders, sit with librarian Mrs. E.J. Levenick in the Madison Free Library children's reading room. T...
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Children Patients at the Morningside Tuberculosis Sanitorium

Date: 08 08 1950
Description: Three children patients at the Morningside Tuberculosis Sanitorium, 300 Femrite Drive, are pictured with their teacher, Murva James (center), and Dr. W.D. ...
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Edgewood Library Club

Date: 11 14 1950
Description: Five members of the Edgewood library club who will attend the Wisconsin Catholic Library Association meeting at Milwaukee Pius XI high school posing for a ...
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High School Seniors Representing Edgewood

Date: 11 14 1950
Description: Six Edgewood High School seniors who represented their school at a symposium at St. John's Catholic high school in Milwaukee posing for a portrait in a lib...
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Studying in the Historical Society Library

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Description: University students studying in the wisconsin Historical Society's library reading room. This view is undated, but the presence of the microfilm viewing ro...
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State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library Reading Room

Date: 1914
Description: View of the Wisconsin Historical Society Library Reading Room with people studying at tables.
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Children Viewing Stereographs

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Description: Group of children at the Cherry Street branch of the Evansville Public Library using steropticons to view stereograph images. Bookshelves line the back wal...
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Library at Washington Irving High School

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Description: Interior of the library at Washington Irving High School, built in 1913 and designed b C.B.J. Snyder. Students study at tables and take books from the shel...

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