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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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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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Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross

Date: 11 01 1948
Description: Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross sorting books at the library of Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Left to right: Mrs. Frederick Hillyer, and ...
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Elroy Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Elroy Public Library. The library opened in 1908 and was funded by Andrew Carnegie with $10,000. On the lower right the cardboard back...
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Mabel Tainter Memorial Library

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Description: Interior view of the Mabel Tainter Memorial Library. The library opened in 1891 and was funded by a $95,000 gift from Captain & Mrs. A. Tainter. On the rig...
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Oconomowoc Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Oconomowoc Public Library. The library was funded by a combined gift of $4,500 from Mrs. Geo Bullen and Mr. P. D. Armour, Sr. Photogra...
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Sturgeon Bay Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Sturgeon Bay Public Library. In the room are reading tables, two carved wood columns, a fireplace, bookshelves, and a nine-drawer card...
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Halle Steensland at Home

Date: 1899
Description: Halle Steensland poses in his lavishly decorated library at his house on 315 North Carroll Street.
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Reading Room at Cornell University Union

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Description: Interior of a reading room at Willard Straight Hall, opened in 1925. The hall can be found in the union of Cornell University, founded in 1865. Men sit an...

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