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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Quarters of the Historical Society

Date: 1880
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...
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Samuel Foster Haven, Anthropologist

Date: 1865
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Samuel Foster Haven (1806-1881), Massachusetts anthropologist, librarian, and archaeologist. Haven is best known as t...
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Madison Community Chest Budget Committee

Date: 04 05 1949
Description: Portrait of Phoebe Hayes, librarian for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and representative from the Madison Feder...
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Wisconsin Free Library Commission

Date: 01 20 1958
Description: S. Janice Kee (left), secretary of the Wisconsin Free Library commission, gives some suggestions to Russell L. Davis, the new library director in Utah.
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Lyman Draper with His Manuscripts

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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...
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We Saw You at Library Breakfast

Date: 05 05 1958
Description: The annual breakfast of the University of Wisconsin Library School was held in Tripp Commons of the Memorial Union. Seated, left to right, are Mrs. Oscar M...
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We Saw You at Library Breakfast

Date: 05 03 1958
Description: Mrs. Rozana Belodedich, Chicago, former director of the University of Belgrade Library School, spoke on "Libraries and Librarianship in Yugoslavia" at the ...
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Wisconsin Free Library Bookmobile

Date: 09 22 1959
Description: Ione Nelson, left and S. Janice Kee are standing next to the Wisconsin Free Library commission's new bookmobile. Ione Nelson is the public library consulta...
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Wisconsin State Historical Society Founders Day Banquet

Date: 01 28 1961
Description: Ben Wilcox, chief librarian of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, stands at left; Robert Murphy, president of the Society and Glenn Thompson, assistan...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Marker

Date: 09 16 1962
Description: Participants in the dedication ceremony of the Laura Ingalls Wilder historical marker in Pepin, Wilder's birthplace, included, from left to right, Miss Ele...
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Red Cross Gray Ladies Volunteer at the Wisconsin Diagnositc Center

Date: 03 04 1958
Description: Red Cross Gray Lady Miss Ida Gangstad (right, 407 N. Henry Street), who taught library methods at the University of Wisconsin Extension Division from 1930 ...
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Edward Alexander and Colleagues

Date: 1942
Description: A man is sitting at a desk holding a document to show it to a man and a woman standing beside him. Caption reads: "Dr. Edward P. Alexander, Director of the...
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Edward Alexander and Benton Wilcox

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Description: Portrait of Edward Alexander, director of the Wisconsin Historical Society, holding a reel of microfilm, and Benton Wilcox, librarian of the Wisconsin Hist...

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