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| Date: | 11 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of interior of the Madison Public Library, 206 North Carroll Street. Margaret Nordholm, on the left, and Emma Bryan on the right are standing... |
| Date: | 10 20 1930 |
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| Description: | Washington school library class, 1st and 2nd grade. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The elevator in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin photographed shortly after the completion of the building in 1900. The elevator is stopped on the... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of south stairway and elevator on the first floor of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin building. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A view of the Library Reading Room from the Visitors Gallery in 1948, showing crowded conditions. Cosmetic changes to the appearance of the room included ... |
| Date: | 02 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Scaffolding in the Wisconsin Historical Society Library Reading Room constructed for the replacement of the glass skylights and original light fixtures. On... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Library Reading Room as completed in 1901, showing skylights and ceiling fixtures, library tables and lights, and many University of Wisconsin students at ... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | SHSW Periodical Reading Room, showing mezzanine stacks, original tables and lamps, and coffered ceiling treatment. Among the University of Wisconsin studen... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Sturgeon Bay Public Library. Prominent elements are reading tables, librarian's desk, bookshelves. |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Baraboo Carnegie Free Library. There is a fireplace, bookshelves, display shelves, and reading tables with bentwood chairs. There are ... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Baraboo Carnegie Free Library Delivery Room. Text at lower left: "Baraboo Library, Delivery Room, Claude & Starck Archts." There is a ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The large service flag that honored all University of Wisconsin students who served during World War I on display in the Reading Room. The students themsel... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Interior of a small library at Saint Joseph's Academy of Maine, opened in 1912. Chairs are gathered around a table near bookcases. In the room are religiou... |
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| Description: | Interior of a library reading room. A man and two women sit at tables, reading. A door leads out of the room on the left, and windows have open transoms on... |
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| Description: | Interior of the library at Amalgamated Clothing Workers' Cooperative Village, designed by the architects Springsteen & Goldhammer and completed in 1930. Ta... |
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| Description: | Interior of White Plains Library, chartered in 1899. A chandelier hangs above the reference desk, and bookshelves surround the area. Caption reads: "Interi... |
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| Description: | Interior of Brady Memorial Library at College of the Sacred Heart, founded in 1841. Long tables and chairs are surrounded by bookshelves standing against t... |
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| Description: | Interior of Brady Memorial Library at College of the Sacred Heart, founded in 1841. The view is from behind the reference desk and includes chairs, tables ... |
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| Description: | Interior of the reading room at Friedsam Memorial Library of St. Bonaventure University, founded in 1858. The reading room built in 1938 features rows of t... |
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| Description: | Interior of a reading room at Willard Straight Hall, opened in 1925. The hall can be found in the union of Cornell University, founded in 1865. Men sit an... |
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