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| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | An interior view of a house at 524 North Henry Street, showing the living room from the library. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | May-June 1856 page from the Historical Society accession register, in which Corresponding Secretary Lyman Draper listed the books received that month. |
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| Description: | Life membership certificate of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin of Levi B. Vilas, signed by Lyman C. Draper, secretary of the Society. A note at t... |
| Date: | 04 05 1944 |
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| Description: | A committee of Madison women musicians, sitting around a table, selecting music books and scores to supplement the Madison Public Library collection are, l... |
| Date: | 05 07 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Sketch of two huge round revolving book stacks with an elevator. This was apparently a "library of the future" idea and was probably never actually built. |
| Date: | 06 27 1944 |
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| Description: | Four children at the Lowell School branch participating in Madison Free Library's summer workshop projects. Left to right: Darrell Premo, Jean LeFebvre, Pa... |
| Date: | 07 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Dr. Albert Goetze, professor of Assyriology at Yale University, examining 4000 year old Sumerian cuneiform tablets from the Wisconsin State Historical Soci... |
| Date: | 08 01 1944 |
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| Description: | Students Dorothy Vecke, Milwaukee, and Kuo Chung-Ying, China, examine the bookcase that was the original Wisconsin State Historical Society library of the ... |
| Date: | 12 20 1944 |
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| Description: | Two men and a woman, members of the Wisconsin Historical Society museum staff, at a desk. |
| Date: | 02 14 1945 |
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| Description: | Historical Society Library, exterior view of the U-shaped space behind the building that will be used for expansion. |
| Date: | 02 14 1945 |
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| Description: | Yvonne Hauge, University of Wisconsin sophomore, in the crowded stacks at the Wisconsin Historical Society Library. |
| Date: | 02 14 1945 |
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| Description: | Ruth Marson with the Vinnie Reem sculpture collection in a storeroom at the Wisconsin Historical Society Library. |
| Date: | 04 07 1945 |
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| Description: | Barbara Groves searches through a book of clippings of Madison men and women in service. The stories were published in the "Wisconsin State Journal" and t... |
| Date: | 08 15 1946 |
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| Description: | W.H. Glover, University of Wisconsin assistant professor in agricultural economics, reading an edition of the "Milwaukee Daily Sentinel" in the Wisconsin S... |
| Date: | 08 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Robert (?) Nelson, librarian, at the Wisconsin State Historical Library, standing before a case containing a rare collection, and looking at a copy of... |
| Date: | 09 28 1946 |
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| Description: | Marius Steffensen, Madison Public Library custodian for 37 years, is shown hanging up his clothes for the last time in the basement of the library, 206 Nor... |
| Date: | 07 08 1901 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of members of the American Library Association, Madison, Wisconsin. East front of Wisconsin State Historical Library Building. Charles A. Cu... |
| Date: | 03 04 1947 |
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| Description: | The Red Cross Gray Ladies continue to offer their services at Wisconsin Memorial Hospital for veterans on the grounds of Mendota State Hospital. Two Gray ... |
| Date: | 03 10 1947 |
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| Description: | An empty Demco Company book truck or book cart. |
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