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| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Young children reading at the library. A librarian works near the circulation desk in the background. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seating cap... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Women sitting in the library of International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department. |
| Date: | 11 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Interior of Madison Public Library, 206 North Carroll Street. The view includes the Reference Room, Information Desk, and Return Window with three libraria... |
| Date: | 11 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of interior of the Madison Public Library, 206 North Carroll Street. Margaret Nordholm, on the left, and Emma Bryan on the right are standing... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Historian Emma Helen Blair, who supervised the Historical Society's maps and manuscripts collection during the 1890s and who aided the editorial projects o... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | An International Auto Wagon with a rear compartment containing shelves of books is parked outside a library. A man is sitting in the driver's seat, and a ... |
| Date: | 03 25 1948 |
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| Description: | Three women clerks sitting at desks in the library in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Building, 448 West Washington Avenue... |
| Date: | 04 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Library in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Building, 448 West Washington Avenue. Also shows two women clerks sitting at de... |
| Date: | 08 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Robert (?) Nelson, librarian, at the Wisconsin State Historical Library, standing before a case containing a rare collection, and looking at a copy of... |
| Date: | 09 28 1946 |
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| Description: | Marius Steffensen, Madison Public Library custodian for 37 years, is shown hanging up his clothes for the last time in the basement of the library, 206 Nor... |
| Date: | 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Mae Hoeft, sitting on right, and Rosalind (Ronnie) Krug Fenz, standing on ladder, are assembling recordings for a WHA Radio music program. |
| Date: | 03 04 1948 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin Extension's new quarters for the department of discussion and public discussion. Workers Mrs. Marion West and Ruth Rowland are show... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Men in work clothes stand on scaffolding in the library reading room of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Desks below are covered with drop cloths. The rea... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A group of children sit at tables in a library reading books and magazines while a librarian looks on from her circulation desk. When it opened in 1938, th... |
| Date: | 06 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Ten Madison school children, all fourth through sixth graders, sit with librarian Mrs. E.J. Levenick in the Madison Free Library children's reading room. T... |
| Date: | 10 01 1950 |
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| Description: | Artist Francis Chapin is shown standing beside his oil painting "House of Dogs, Mexico" which the Madison Art Association displayed at the Madison Free Lib... |
| 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: | 1970 |
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| Description: | View of Wisconsin Historical Society librarians filing catalog cards. This image is undated, but it was probably taken during the 1970s. |
| Date: | 09 22 1953 |
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| Description: | Margaret Moss, director of school libraries (second from left), meets with new librarians Marguerite Hasse (Lincioln & Dudgeon Schools), Joan Mundt (Schenk... |
| Date: | 12 30 1953 |
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| Description: | Helen Jansky, head of the circulation department at the Madison Free Library, displays a few of the books used to help library patrons use their Christmas ... |
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