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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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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.
Painting

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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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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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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