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Madison Public Library

Date: 11 15 1945
Description: Interior of Madison Public Library, 206 North Carroll Street. The view shows the Reference Room, Information Desk, one librarian and two patrons.
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Louise Phelps Kellogg

Date: 10 14 1936
Description: Dr. Louise Phelps Kellogg sitting at her desk. Kellogg was an historian at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
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Mrs. Phillips, Secretary of W.C.T.U.

Date: 08 24 1934
Description: Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist.
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Fire Damage to the Third Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 02 1904
Description: The office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in the East Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol after the fire of February 27.
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Bookcase in Fire Damage

Date: 02 1904
Description: A close-up of the damage in the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction caused by the Wisconsin State Capitol fire. Details of interest include ...
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Office of Judge Marshall

Date: 1904
Description: Office of Roujet Delisle Marshall, who served as Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice 1895-1918. The judge's office was located in one of the octagon tower room...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Office of SHSW Historian

Date: 1900
Description: Historian Emma Helen Blair, who supervised the Historical Society's maps and manuscripts collection during the 1890s and who aided the editorial projects o...
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Charles H. Cashin and Herbert C. Hale

Date: 12 11 1944
Description: Charles H. Cashin (right) of Stevens Point being sworn in by Clerk of Court Herbert C. Hale as the U.S. Attorney for the Western Wisconsin District.
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Judge Elmer E. Barlow, Wisconsin Supreme Court

Date: 03 20 1945
Description: Judge Elmer E. Barlow, in his robes, sitting in his office, as a member of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
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Livia Appel, Managing Editor of University of Wisconsin Press

Date: 07 10 1945
Description: Portrait of Livia Appel, Managing Editor of University of Wisconsin Press.
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Attorneys Dorothy Baldwin and Emily Dodge

Date: 11 01 1945
Description: Madison attorneys Dorothy Baldwin and Emily Dodge, who organized what is believed to be the only all-woman law firm in Wisconsin.
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Maynard Brichford

Date: 1955
Description: Maynard Brichford, Illinois State Archivist and noted authority on archives and record management issues, photographed earlier in his career in the archive...
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Frank A. Ross, Madison Attorney

Date: 04 22 1947
Description: Portrait of Attorney Frank A. Ross, 3547 Topping Road, Shorewood Hills, in the library of the law firm of Spohn, Ross, Stevens & Lamb. A partner in the fir...
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SHSW Library Reading Room

Date: 1912
Description: The Historical Society Library delivery desk and librarians Mary S. Foster, Esther DeBoos, and Edna C. Adams, 1912. At the time, patrons and students were...
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Sennett and Winslow Capture

Date: 11 17 1947
Description: Alleged killers after confessing to the murder of two people. Seated are Buford Sennett, Richland Center, and Robert Winslow, Owen, standing behind them i...
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Madison Free Library

Date: 11 20 1947
Description: At the Madison Free Library, 206 North Carroll Street, Gerhard K. Gabriel is looking at books with Evelyn Miller, the reference librarian, looking on.
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Fred E. Risser

Date: 11 27 1946
Description: Portrait of Attorney Frederic E. Risser seated at his desk.
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Legislative Reference Bureau Library

Date: 11 23 1947
Description: Mrs. Ann Johnson, senior clerk typist, filing clippings in the stacks of the Legislative Reference Bureau stacks.
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Leroy Klose, Director of Music, Madison Public Schools

Date: 06 25 1948
Description: Portrait of Leroy Klose, 4309 Bagley Parkway, Director of Music for the Madison Public Schools, seated at his desk.
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Book Week

Date: 1948
Description: Four Madison authors are shown together holding books they have written. Seated are Francis F. Bowman and Prof. William Hesseltine. Standing are Miss Emil...

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