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SHSW Library Reading Room
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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 not admitted to the stacks; instead they filled out call slips and the books were paged and shelved until pickup in the mahogany bookcases behind the women.
1912
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Original SHSW Library Card Catalog
1903
View of the Wisconsin Historical Society Library from the University Library's delivery area, showing the coffered ceiling and the mahogany card catalog. At the time students were not admitted to t...
Library Circulation Desk
May 15, 1952
Close-up of the Library Circulation Desk and librarians Esther DeBoos and Margaret Gleason (right) behind the desk at the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Wisconsin Historical Society Bookcase
July 1971
Bookcase in the second floor hallway outside the library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The case contains 50 books that were part of the original collections of the Society. The case...
SHSW Visitors Gallery
1901
Visitors Gallery and art book collection on the third floor of the Wisconsin Historical Society Building. This image appears on page 91 of the Historical Society Memorial Volume. A similar image b...
Wisconsin Historical Society Periodical Reading Room
1901
SHSW Periodical Reading Room, showing mezzanine stacks, original tables and lamps, and coffered ceiling treatment. Among the University of Wisconsin students seated at the tables is Charles McCarth...
Library Circulation Desk
1948
Wisconsin Historical Society Library Circulation Desk and staff.
