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| Date: | 05 1896 |
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| Description: | The office of Historical Society Librarian Minnie Oakley in the third Wisconsin State Capitol. From 1866 to 1883 the Historical Society occupied the entire... |
| Date: | 05 1896 |
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| Description: | The office of Historical Society Librarian Isaac Bradley in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. Bradley, who joined the Society staff in 1... |
| 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: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Reuben Gold Thwaites, secretary of the State Historical Society, at his desk in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. Thwaites succeeded Lym... |
| Date: | 04 1892 |
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| Description: | Daniel Steele Durrie, librarian of the Wisconsin Historical Society, seated at his desk in the South Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol. This photograph ... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | A two-story gallery of the Historical Society in the Wisconsin State Capitol, with captured Confederate army flags on display. This photograph was taken in... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Cluttered work space of the librarian responsible for the Historical Society's newspaper collection during the period when the Society occupied rooms in th... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | The Historical Society's early library and painting collections on display in the third Wisconsin State Capitol. This photograph was taken about 1880 befor... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Librarian Daniel S. Durrie seated in the two-story high gallery that the Historical Society occupied in the old South Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol f... |
| 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: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Emma Hawley, a Historical Society librarian, at her desk in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. After the Society purchased its first type... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | The north library reading room, which was reserved for women, in the Historical Society's quarters in the third Wisconsin State Capitol. This room, which w... |
| 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: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Copy of an artist's rendition of an exterior view of the Elisha D. Smith Library. Pen and ink drawing is signed: "G.J. de Gelleke, 1899." Bottom of drawing... |
| 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: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View toward the library's facade, taken from a path leading to the stone and brick building. Two paths intersect the main path and trees and shrubbery line... |
| Date: | 08 1893 |
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| Description: | View of the main room of the Woman's Library in the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across Langdon Street of the Wisconsin State Historical Society building under construction in winter with snow on the ground. A group of men... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of librarian Daniel S. Durrie seated in the two-story high gallery that the Historical Society occupied in the old South Wing of the Wisconsin ... |
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