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| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Kaukauna Public Library. |
| 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: | 02 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Library staff members at the new consolidated service desk in the Historical Society Library Reading Room. Microfilm cubicles have not yet been installed ... |
| 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: | 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: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Aerial view over University Avenue of University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Chadbourne Hall, built 1958-1959, is in the lower foreground, the Wisconsin H... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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. |
| Date: | 03 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Dorothy Huston (1433 East Johnson Street), the reference division supervisor at the Madison Free Library's main branch at 201 West Mifflin Street, helps ma... |
| Date: | 03 26 1958 |
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| Description: | Remodeling is underway for the new Hawthorne Branch Library at 2041 Atwood Avenue. This library location replaced the Williamson Street branch library and ... |
| Date: | 09 24 1958 |
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| Description: | Members of the Madison Art Association and the Women's Auxiliary of the State Historical Society get a preview of "The Family of Man" photographic exhibit ... |
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