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Whitewater Public Library
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Interior view of the White Memorial Library. The library opened in 1904 and was funded with a $15,000 donation from Flavia White. Bottom right of photograph reads: "Reading & reference room - White Memorial Library, Whitewater, Wis., Claude and Starck Arch'ts." In the room are reading tables with reading lamps and bentwood chairs. Two bookshelves, and a display rack for magazines, divide the room from a reading table in front of a brick fireplace on the back wall which is flanked by bookshelves with windows above.
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