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| Date: | 05 1896 |
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| Description: | Minnie Oakley and Florence Baker Hayes (reaching for a book), two Historical Society librarians, during the period when the Society was housed in the South... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | The circulation desk and study area in the Historical Society's library in the third Wisconsin State Capitol. This photograph taken by periodical librarian... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | The Genealogical Alcove in the Historical Society's quarters in the third Wisconsin State Capitol. Although the Society had only moved into these rooms in ... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Bookshelves and desks within the Eau Claire Public Library Reading Room. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Close-up of the coffered ceiling detail in the Wisconsin Historical Society Library Reading Room, also showing the pendant light fixtures. |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Thordarson library with bookcases and a spectacular chandelier with buffalo horns. The building is of stone, with arched windows. |
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| Description: | A worker on scaffolding installs ceiling tiles and new lights, concealing the plaster coffers in the library lobby of the Wisconsin Historical Society. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Wisconsin Historical Society library. |
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| Description: | View from below of the Wisconsin Historical Society's Library skylight. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Wisconsin Historical Society's library with a view of the card catalogs. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Appleton Free Public Library. There are reading tables, a librarian's desk, and bookshelves. Large light fixtures are hanging from the... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Appleton Free Public Library. There are reading tables, a librarian's desk, bookshelves, and a wicker chair. Two large light fixtures ... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Appleton Free Public Library. In the large room are reading tables, fireplace, radiators, carved wood railings, and wicker furniture. ... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Beloit Public Library. There are reading tables with large lamps, bentwood chairs, and bookshelves throughout the room. |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Dudgeon Library. An ornate coffered ceiling from which lamps hang from chains dominates the room. There are two large signs that read ... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Gilbert M. Simmons Public Library. The library opened in 1900 and was funded with a gift of $150,000 from G.M. Simmons. Through a larg... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Elisha D. Smith Library. The library opened in 1898 funded with a gift of $20,000 from E.D. Smith. Lower left of photograph reads: "Va... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Elisha D. Smith Library. The library opened in 1898 funded with a gift of $20,000 from E.D. Smith. Throughout the room in the foregrou... |
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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... |
| 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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