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| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Young children reading at the library. A librarian works near the circulation desk in the background. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seating cap... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Salzmann Library, Saint Francis, WI. Caption reads: "Salzmann Library St. Francis, Wis." |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Booth at the Wisconsin State Fair promoting the Wisconsin Free Library Commission. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Three boys in a public library looking for books in the main stacks. A table and magazine rack are in the foreground. When it opened in 1938, the Library h... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A group of children, boys and girls, reading at tables in a sunny reading room in the public library. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seating cap... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A group of children sit at tables in a library reading books and magazines while a librarian looks on from her circulation desk. When it opened in 1938, th... |
| Date: | 02 1908 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Greene Memorial Library of Milwaukee-Downer College (now the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). The image is part of a 14-page pamphl... |
| Date: | 02 1908 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Greene Memorial Library of Milwaukee-Downer College (now the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). The image is part of a 14-page pamphl... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the South Milwaukee Public Library. Sign on librarian's desk reads: "Low speaking will be appreciated." Signs on bookshelves read: "Natura... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the South Milwaukee Public Library. A sign on a table reads: "Story Hour Saturday 11 A.M." There is a large, brick fireplace along the far... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the South Milwaukee Public Library. Reverse of cardboard backing reads: "South Milwaukee branch: a children entertainment." Stamped into p... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the South Milwaukee Public Library of an audience of children and adults from the stage area of an auditorium. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Milwaukee Public Library. Reverse of the cardboard backing reads: "Milwaukee Public Library and Museum, erected 1898, cost $512,000, F... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Milwaukee Public Library, showing reading tables on the ground floor, and balconies and railings of two levels above. Large stone colu... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Milwaukee Public Library. Note below the image reads: " Milwaukee Public Library, Children's Room." There are reading tables and chair... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Milwaukee Public Library. Note below the image reads: "Milwaukee Public Library, Delivery Room." There is a vaulted ceiling with skyli... |
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| Description: | Copy of architect's rendering of the exterior of the West Allis Public Library. The library was funded with a $15,000 gift from Andrew Carnegie. Upper righ... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View across Grand Avenue of the Milwaukee Public Library. To the left, the base of the Midsummer Festival Monument can be seen, and the George Washington m... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | John Johnston (1836-1904) sits with his feet up on a hassock in his library while reading a paper. Johnston, a successful Milwaukee banker, lived at 645 Fr... |
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