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| Description: | Photographs illustrating the general history of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Included are interior and exterior views of facilities and build... |
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| Description: | First bookcase at the Wisconsin Historical Society, with two glass paneled doors that are slightly open to show three shelves with books. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | The Historical Society's early library and painting collections on display in the third Wisconsin State Capitol. This photograph was taken about 1880 befor... |
| Date: | 07 20 1960 |
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| Description: | First floor library in Lucian M. Hanks house, 525 Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Interior of the library/study in the residence of Prof. Richard Ely, on Prospect Street. Prof. Ely, of the University of Wisconsin, was a noted economist. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | An interior view of the Wisconsin State Treasurer, Sewell A. Peterson, home on South Fairchild Street. The photograph is taken looking through the parlor a... |
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| Description: | Five women posed sitting on the floor of a parlor in front of an organ holding photograph albums, a man's chest is visible in the organ's mirror, probably ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Living room and downstairs bedroom of Timothy Brown II and Elizabeth Barnard Brown's house (built 1863), 116 East Gorham Street. |
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| Description: | View of a bedroom, with a bookshelf, dresser, wooden chair, bed, and several framed photographs. There is a plant in front of a window on the far left. |
| Date: | 05 02 1949 |
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| Description: | T.L. Graham reading in front of the floor to ceiling bookcases in the living room of his Edgewater Hotel apartment in Madison. The Edgewater Hotel is locat... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | John Johnston (1836-1904) sits with his feet up on a hassock in his library while reading a paper. Johnston, a successful Milwaukee banker, lived at 645 Fr... |
| 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: | 11 26 1947 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Myra (Mrs. C.F.) Cary seated in a chair holding a book in her suite at the Park Hotel on her 86th birthday. She and her husband led the way in ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | The living room of Fred and Annie Storer Brown's home (built 1888), 121 East Gilman Street. Annie Hepworth Storer Brown sits by the fireplace. |
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| Description: | A large plant is on a stand near a daybed. Framed prints are hanging on the wall. On the far left is a table with a lamp on the top, and books on the botto... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Interior corner, with bookcase and rocking chair, at the Hillside Home School, operated by Misses Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones. |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Joseph Mann Public Library, showing the south half of the reading room. The building opened in 1914. Land was funded by a $1000 donati... |
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| Description: | Man and woman pose on left, a girl sitting in a chair is posed holding a doll, with a dog posed sitting in a chair next to her. On the right, a boy is pose... |
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| Description: | Indoor group portrait of an unidentified family group. There is a woman posing sitting in a chair between two men posing standing on either side of her. On... |
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| Description: | Two women and a girl are sitting in a room with an organ in the background. A women sitting on a large book on the floor is playing with a dog sitting up o... |
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