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| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A view of the Library Reading Room in 1955, after the modernization of the 1950s was complete. Most prominent is the division of the room into functional ... |
| Date: | 05 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Kenneth Duckett and Alan E. Kent, historians employed by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, using the microfilm reader in the Society's old, first ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View of the Historical Society Library Reading Room taken from the Visitors Gallery. Although undated, the photograph was probably taken shortly after the... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Historical Society Library Reading Room and the Visitors Gallery after their modernization during the mid-1950s. Prominent among the visible changes are a... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Alternate view of the modernization of the Historical Society Library Reading Room completed in the mid-1950s. Most prominent here is the division of the ... |
| Date: | 02 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Modernization in the old Periodical Room (#227) including a view of the beams used to strengthen the mezzanine floor for the storage of the McCormick Colle... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Building under construction on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A small storage area with dirt piles, scattered lumber, and support girders for ... |
| 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: | 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: | 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Dr. Clifford L. Lord posed standing examining large bound volumes from the Cudahy papers in the collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 01 08 1959 |
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| Description: | Shelves at the new Lakeview branch library at Troy and Northport Drives are being stacked in preparation for the library's grand opening. Mrs. Dianne Lee (... |
| Date: | 09 21 1959 |
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| Description: | Lloyd Zimmerman hangs one of his pictures as part of a display at the Madison Public Library featuring the artwork of thirteen pupils in the Irene Buck Sum... |
| Date: | 09 21 1959 |
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| Description: | Edith Johnson, left, and June Anderson preparing to hang their pictures as part of a display at the Madison Public Library, featuring the artwork of thirte... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Construction worker at a conference on economic problems at the Milwaukee Public Library. The subject is Albert Pearson. |
| Date: | 11 22 1959 |
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| Description: | Eileen Ryan, a secretary of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, is shown looking over the player piano given to the society by Berniece LaFlash. The so... |
| Date: | 01 27 1951 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler Jr. stands next to a replica of the Liberty Bell, holding a rope attached to the clapper of the bell. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | State Historical Society of Wisconsin Director, Clifford Lord, posing with a volume from the McCormick collection shelved on the right. |
| Date: | 03 05 1958 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin student Richard Merkel (1925 West Lawn Avenue) conducts research work in a U.W. Memorial Library carrel off of the book stacks. |
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