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| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife Olgivanna, seated together reading in a bedroom at Taliesin. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring Green, Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Office of author August Derleth, Wisconsin's Very Live Radio's (WVLR) unofficial consultant on the history of the Sauk-Prairie area. Derleth's novels and s... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Women sitting in the library of International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Patent attorney Charles L. Goss (seated), with clerk Arthur Muerless in the law offices of Winkler, Flanders, Smith, Bottum, & Vilas. |
| Date: | 10 17 1963 |
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| Description: | A librarian reads a children's book aloud to young boys and girls. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Dr. Joseph Smith reads at his desk in his office in the Wisconsin Valley Trust Building. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | "Doomed Demons" by Eustace L. Adams, part of the Air Combat Stories for Boys series published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1932 and 1946. The cover art is b... |
| Date: | 11 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Interior of Madison Public Library, 206 North Carroll Street. The view shows the Reference Room, Information Desk, one librarian and two patrons. |
| Date: | 10 14 1936 |
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| Description: | Dr. Louise Phelps Kellogg sitting at her desk. Kellogg was an historian at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 08 24 1934 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist. |
| 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: | 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: | 1900 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | An International Auto Wagon with a rear compartment containing shelves of books is parked outside a library. A man is sitting in the driver's seat, and a ... |
| Date: | 12 11 1944 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A man, possibly John Forbes, working at a roll-top desk in his office over the old Fire Hall. A dog is sitting on a chair in the lower left. Books on the s... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Author Alex Haley autographing a copy of his best selling book, Roots, during a visit to Spottsylvania County, Virginia, where his ancestor Kunte Ki... |
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| Description: | A group of manual laborers are reading books near a tent. "TVA" [Tennessee Valley Authority] has been collaged over the image. Part of a series of Highland... |
| Date: | 04 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Phoebe Hayes, librarian for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and representative from the Madison Feder... |
| Date: | 07 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Ginny Hall, a West High School senior, has a summer job caring for Sharon and Sandra Sinn, the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Sinn, 3405 Blackhawk Dr... |
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