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| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Interior view of traveling library station including a sign that reads "Chew Fame" and a wood burning stove. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a traveling library depository. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Interior view including traveling library station with map of Wisconsin on the wall. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Interior view including traveling library station and organ. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Bookshelves and desks within the Eau Claire Public Library Reading Room. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Road lined with fences leading into town. Several houses are visible in the distance. A railroad track and electric or telegraph line runs along the left s... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | The Elisha D. Smith Library built by Van Ryn and De Gelleke. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the First Public Library. It was located over Pondee Grocery Store on College Avenue. |
| Date: | 12 1892 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Frank Allis wearing a suit, seated in library. |
| 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: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Halle Steensland poses in his lavishly decorated library at his house on 315 North Carroll Street. |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A view of the library in the George Brumder residence at the corner of Grand (later Wisconsin) Avenue and 18th Street. There is a fireplace with mantel clo... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View of library and dining room in the home of Lucy and W.A. Holt. Above the fireplace are books, framed photos, a vase with flowers, and a mirror. Orienta... |
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