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| Date: | 08 24 1934 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Cluttered work space of the librarian responsible for the Historical Society's newspaper collection during the period when the Society occupied rooms in th... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Librarian Daniel S. Durrie seated in the two-story high gallery that the Historical Society occupied in the old South Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol f... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Four Madison authors are shown together holding books they have written. Seated are Francis F. Bowman and Prof. William Hesseltine. Standing are Miss Emil... |
| Date: | 04 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Phoebe Hayes, librarian for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and representative from the Madison Feder... |
| Date: | 10 11 1950 |
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| Description: | Three members of the Madison Business and Professional Women's Club, which is celebrating National Business Women's Week, look at a shelf of books. They ar... |
| Date: | 11 19 1951 |
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| Description: | Two auctioneers posing with books to be auctioned off at the Theta Sigma Phi alumnae "Holiday Book Fair" that will benefit the professional women in journa... |
| Date: | 08 27 1953 |
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| Description: | U.W. chemistry professor M. Leslie Holt and his wife Gretchan check the proofs of a new book for which he is an assistant editor. Gretchan is in charge of ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | The Houdini Award, an album, presented to Madison magician Ben Bergor by the Houdini Club of Wisconsin. Because Bergor won the award three years in success... |
| Date: | 03 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Frank J. Vaughn reads to 6-year-old Kenneth Lemmer, Jr. and 5-year-old Ann Lemmer while the children's grandmother, Kath B. Morrissey, works on an afg... |
| Date: | 03 01 1957 |
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| Description: | Ann Griffith reads to Jamie Lou, age 4, and Terry, 1 year, daughters of Patrick and Ardus Stone. Ann Griffith is participating in the University of Wiscons... |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting depicting Lyman Draper, first Secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, surrounded by volumes of his collections and look... |
| Date: | 12 07 1960 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin President Conrad A. Elvehjem (left) receives the first copy of a new biography of the former university president, "Charles Richard... |
| Date: | 05 13 1950 |
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| Description: | Menu, mounted on board, for the sixty-fifth birthday dinner of the Gridiron Club, with a cartoon by Jim (James Thomas) Berryman of Father Time carrying a s... |
| Date: | 06 19 1953 |
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| Description: | The cornerstone for the new University of Wisconsin YMCA building at the corner of W. Johnson and N. Brooks Streets is laid. Copies of the bible, a Wisc... |
| Date: | 06 1963 |
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| Description: | August Derleth (seated) signs books at a meeting of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. Behind him are (l to r): Star Powers, Marvin Davis Winsett, Mildred ... |
| Date: | 06 1963 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men and woman at a Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets convention. Names, (l to r): Marvin Davis Winsett, Poet Laureate of Texas; Edna Kristin ... |
| Date: | 06 1963 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men and woman at a Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets convention. Names, (l to r): Mildred Breedlove, Nevada; August Derleth, Wisconsin writer... |
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| Description: | Newton Minow is sworn in as Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman. He has his right hand raised and the left hand on a bible as he takes the oat... |
| Date: | 02 18 1954 |
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| Description: | Isabel La Follette (right) and probably Deborah Sherman, are discussing the Woman's Service Exchange, which Mrs. La Follette started at the Madison Vocatio... |
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