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| Date: | 04 16 1945 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Madison Public Library, circulation desk. Cardboard backing reads: "1913, Main Loan Desk." A large group of women in winter coats and ... |
| Date: | 02 28 1978 |
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| Description: | "Library. Situated above the firehouse. Librarians Nancy Koll and Judy Scheirer estimate that they have about 5,000 books and periodicals." |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Two women select books from the opened back of a traveling branch library in a truck parked on a street. |
| Date: | 11 23 1959 |
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| Description: | Individuals breaking ground for the new Sequoya branch of the Madison Public Library at the Midvale Plaza shopping center. The building is being constructe... |
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| Description: | View across street towards a man posing sitting in a sleigh pulled by a team of two horses on a snow-covered city street. Location identified as the north ... |
| Date: | 01 28 1954 |
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| Description: | A student is looking through the card catalog (or what the newspaper calls "the library's key, a simple cross-filer system") at the Madison Free Library at... |
| Date: | 01 28 1954 |
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| Description: | A man is reading a book while sitting in a chair at the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 02 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Alice Volker, a city librarian, boarding the library's bookmobile to start the day's rounds. The bookmobile is an outfitted bus. |
| Date: | 02 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Timmy and Joan Becker are reading a book by the shelves in the Madison Free Library bookmobile, which is parked in the Lakeview Heights neighborhood, a new... |
| Date: | 02 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Ruth Culliney and Jeanette Dega browse books on the shelves of the Madison Free Library bookmobile parked in the Lakeview Heights neighborhood, a new city ... |
| Date: | 10 29 1963 |
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| Description: | Groundbreaking ceremony for the new Madison Public Library building at the south corner of W. Mifflin and N. Fairchild Streets. Rev. Joseph Brown is standi... |
| Date: | 09 22 1957 |
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| Description: | An older man wearing thick glasses and a wool blazer looks closely at a newspaper on a rod. |
| Date: | 01 25 1958 |
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| Description: | Three attendees at the symposium conducted by four national news commentators at the opening of the National Mass Communications History Center, held in th... |
| Date: | 01 16 1959 |
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| Description: | Scene at the U.W. Memorial Library crowded with students studying, including one sleeping with his head resting on the table. Coats hanging in coat racks a... |
| Date: | 03 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Peggy Van Wagenen (left, 122 E. Gilman Street) and Ellen Erickson (right, 1321 Morrison Street), check out an LP vinyl record in the Madison Central Librar... |
| Date: | 03 05 1958 |
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| Description: | The Madison Bookmobile makes eleven stops in the city. Shown in the bookmobile are (left to right): Mrs. Tom Newport and son, Jim (5437 Dahlen Drive); libr... |
| Date: | 01 30 1995 |
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| Description: | Patrons inside the Dane County Library Service Bookmobile. Cathy Bloom (in black sweater) assists a patron at the back desk. |
| Date: | 01 30 1995 |
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| Description: | Cathy Surprise (Chambers) assists a male patron (possibly Rod Clark) in the Dane County Library Service Bookmobile. |
| Date: | 01 30 1995 |
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| Description: | Diane Wells helps her daughter Stephanie pick out books at the Dane County Library Service Bookmobile. |
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