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| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Young children reading at the library. A librarian works near the circulation desk in the background. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seating cap... |
| Date: | 08 08 1906 |
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| Description: | Dr. Charles R. McCarthy and staff at the Legislative Reference Library. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Legislative Reference Library. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Shirley Mecha, regular teacher at Meadow Brook School, helping migrant students use resources in the "library corner." |
| 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: | 11 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Interior of Madison Public Library, 206 North Carroll Street, showing Reading Room, magazine display shelves and history book section. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The interior of the Appleton Public Library. Caption reads: "Interior of Public Library, Appleton, Wis." |
| Date: | 02 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Scaffolding in the Wisconsin Historical Society Library Reading Room constructed for the replacement of the glass skylights and original light fixtures. On... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Library Reading Room as completed in 1901, showing skylights and ceiling fixtures, library tables and lights, and many University of Wisconsin students at ... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | SHSW Periodical Reading Room, showing mezzanine stacks, original tables and lamps, and coffered ceiling treatment. Among the University of Wisconsin studen... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | 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... |
| Date: | 11 20 1947 |
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| Description: | At the Madison Free Library, 206 North Carroll Street, Gerhard K. Gabriel is looking at books with Evelyn Miller, the reference librarian, looking on. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Interior of library with large open reading area and long tables and Windsor style chairs, a two-story high ceiling, and a balcony around the second level.... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A librarian checks out a book to a young girl, while other children sit at tables reading in the background. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seat... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A woman and man sit at a round table in a public library reading. An office cubicle and magazine rack are visible in the background. When it opened in 1938... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Three boys in a public library looking for books in the main stacks. A table and magazine rack are in the foreground. When it opened in 1938, the Library h... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A group of children, boys and girls, reading at tables in a sunny reading room in the public library. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seating cap... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A group of children sit at tables in a library reading books and magazines while a librarian looks on from her circulation desk. When it opened in 1938, th... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Appleton Free Public Library. There are reading tables, a librarian's desk, and bookshelves. Large light fixtures are hanging from the... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Janesville Public Library. There is large librarian's desk, with a bust of Abraham Lincoln to the right. Behind the desk are two colum... |
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