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Library Circulation Desk

Date: 1948
Description: Wisconsin Historical Society Library Circulation Desk and staff.
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Edward Alexander and Benton Wilcox

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Description: Portrait of Edward Alexander, director of the Wisconsin Historical Society, holding a reel of microfilm, and Benton Wilcox, librarian of the Wisconsin Hist...
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Library School

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior of three-story building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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"Wisconsin State Journal" Staff Member

Date: 01 28 1949
Description: Portrait of Beth Louden, "Wisconsin State Journal," editorial department librarian.
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Historical Society Librarian's Office

Date: 04 1892
Description: Daniel Steele Durrie, librarian of the Wisconsin Historical Society, seated at his desk in the South Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol. This photograph ...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Office of SHSW Librarian

Date: 05 1896
Description: The office of Historical Society Librarian Isaac Bradley in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. Bradley, who joined the Society staff in 1...
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Wisconsin State Historical Society Founders Day Banquet

Date: 01 28 1961
Description: Ben Wilcox, chief librarian of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, stands at left; Robert Murphy, president of the Society and Glenn Thompson, assistan...
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Gladys Dieruf Looking at Art Reproduction

Date: 07 28 1950
Description: Gladys Dieruf, UW Extension librarian, looks at one of the arts and crafts reproductions collected by the University of Wisconsin Extension Bureau of Infor...
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Wisconsin Free Library Commission

Date: 01 20 1958
Description: S. Janice Kee (left), secretary of the Wisconsin Free Library commission, gives some suggestions to Russell L. Davis, the new library director in Utah.
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Library Catalog

Date: 1970
Description: View of Wisconsin Historical Society librarians filing catalog cards. This image is undated, but it was probably taken during the 1970s.
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Jean Cooper, Wisconsin State Journal Librarian

Date: 01 27 1959
Description: Jean Cooper, Wisconsin State Journal librarian. Portrait taken for the 10th anniversary of the newspaper moving to publishing of a morning edition. ...
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Librarian with Library Books

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Description: Woman, probably a librarian, paging through a book from a crate stamped "Wisconsin Free Library Commission, Madison, Wis." Several other books are stacked ...
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 01 14 1954
Description: Nancy Staudenraus, "Wisconsin State Journal" librarian and assistant Spelling Bee director, and Ernest P. Green, day foreman of the press room, looking at ...
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Red Cross Gray Ladies Volunteer at the Wisconsin Diagnositc Center

Date: 03 04 1958
Description: Red Cross Gray Lady Miss Ida Gangstad (right, 407 N. Henry Street), who taught library methods at the University of Wisconsin Extension Division from 1930 ...
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June E. Johnson

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of June E. Johnson. June worked at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin as a librarian from 1948 to ca. 1980. Her siste...
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Summer Vacation Jobs for Youth

Date: 07 11 1949
Description: Joanne Togstad, a recent graduate of Edgewood High School, stands near the newspaper rack at her University of WIsconsin library summer job.
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Office of SHSW Librarian

Date: 05 1896
Description: The office of Historical Society Librarian Minnie Oakley in the third Wisconsin State Capitol. From 1866 to 1883 the Historical Society occupied the entire...
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State Historical Society 70th Anniversary Party

Date: 01 30 1919
Description: The library staff of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and their guests the University of Wisconsin Library staff, at the Society's seventieth anni...
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Wisconsin Free Library Bookmobile

Date: 09 22 1959
Description: Ione Nelson, left and S. Janice Kee are standing next to the Wisconsin Free Library commission's new bookmobile. Ione Nelson is the public library consulta...
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Honoring Librarian Katharine Middleton

Date: 01 18 1958
Description: Librarian friends at a tea honoring Katherine Middleton who is retiring after almost 32 years with the Wisconsin Free Library Commission. They are Jennie S...

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