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Filter: Year of 1900-1999
| 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: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Whitford Memorial Hall, in which is housed the library of Milton College, including many books on biology and evolution. |
| 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior view across street towards the Racine Public Library. There are several people standing on the front steps. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a Racine Public Library. Caption reads: "'Public Library' Racina[sic], Wis." |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Monroe Public Library. Caption reads: "Public Library, Monroe, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Public Library and Telephone Company buildings in Monroe. Caption reads: "Library and Telephone Building, Monroe, Wis." |
| 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Public Library, established in 1882, was erected at a cost of $30,000, of which Andrew Carnegie contributed $12,500. The balance was raised by public subsc... |
| 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: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Carnegie Library, Richland Center, WI. Two people are seated at a table reading at the far left. A frieze decorates the wall above a d... |
| Date: | 07 04 1905 |
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| Description: | Children dressed as literary characters on a 4th of July float. Some children hold banners promoting the library. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Booth at the Wisconsin State Fair promoting the Wisconsin Free Library Commission. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Exterior view library. Caption reads: "Farnsworth Public Library, Oconto, Wis." |
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