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| Date: | 1996 |
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| Description: | Color portrait of the Historical Society staff. This image is a humorous version with balloons of another image which was taken for the cover of a special ... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Unidentified young woman holding a large candle near a display of candles next to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Library. Bikes are parked in... |
| Date: | 11 1951 |
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| Description: | Benton H. Wilcox, Librarian of the State Historical Society, examining manuscript materials in the McCormick Collection, recently received at the Society. |
| Date: | 11 1951 |
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| Description: | State Historical Society employee Joyce Hancock examines a replica of Cyrus McCormick's first reaper. |
| Date: | 11 1951 |
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| Description: | State Historical Society employee Joyce Hancock with a model of Cyrus McCormick's first reaper. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View toward the entrance to the Public Library, with a monument in front. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Man in a bowler hat standing next to an International Model M truck used as a bookmobile for the Washington County Library. The shelves of books are access... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | View of Wisconsin Historical Society librarians filing catalog cards. This image is undated, but it was probably taken during the 1970s. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the length of the Historical Society Library Reading Room, including tables, chairs, lamps and skylight. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The large service flag that honored all University of Wisconsin students who served during World War I on display in the Reading Room. The students themsel... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Detail view of the two doors at the north end of the Wisconsin Historical Society Library reading room which provided access to the separate periodical rea... |
| Date: | 11 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the balcony of the north end of the Wisconsin Historical Society's library reading room showing the recent remodeling. The remodeling di... |
| Date: | 02 12 1952 |
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| Description: | Boy Scouts ring a replica of the Liberty Bell to launch the three year progam of Wisconsin Boy Scouts. The bell stands in the Wisconsin State Historical So... |
| Date: | 08 1930 |
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| Description: | View from sidewalk of the landscaping outside a public library in St. Charles, Illinois. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | District school library with bookshelves along the walls near a window, and a table and chairs arranged in front of them. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Interior of a small library at Saint Joseph's Academy of Maine, opened in 1912. Chairs are gathered around a table near bookcases. In the room are religiou... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Interior of the library at the School of the Brown County Ursulines, established by the Ursuline Sisters, founded in 1845. Bookshelves and windows line th... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Third Wisconsin Civil War veterans' reunion, posed on the lawn in front of the Beloit Public Library. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A view of the library's facade and side. This building follows the Neoclassical style popular in the early twentieth century, and it is an iconic style for... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View toward the brick and stone facade of a neoclassical-style public library on a corner. |
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