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| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Milo Milton Quaife (1880-1959), serving as director and editor from 1914 to 1920. |
| 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: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Construction work in the Historical Society Library Reading Room in preparation for installing linoleum floor tiles. |
| 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: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Memorial Library, Armory (Red Gym or Old Red), and University of Wisconsin Boathouse from across mall on the lower campus of the University of Wisconsin-Ma... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Library under construction on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. In the background is the State Historical Society, and Science Hall is in the upp... |
| 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 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: | 09 15 1953 |
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| Description: | Student guide Donald Peterson of Madison pointing out the new section of the university library during an orientation tour of the University of Wisconsin c... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 08 19 1954 |
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| Description: | View of a worker laying concrete blocks to close off one of the three front entrances to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin headquarters building. A... |
| 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: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Don McNeil standing inside the open passenger door of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin's first fleet vehicle, a Ford Ranch Wagon. The vehicle is p... |
| 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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