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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: | 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: | Interior of Madison Public Library, 206 North Carroll Street. The view shows the Reference Room, Information Desk, one librarian and two patrons. |
| 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: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Dr. Josephine Harper, later Josephine Harper Darling, archivist at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, and editor of the guide to the papers of Lyma... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | The Historical Society Library delivery desk and librarians Mary S. Foster, Esther DeBoos, and Edna C. Adams, 1912. At the time, patrons and students were... |
| Date: | 11 20 1947 |
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| Description: | At the Madison Free Library, 206 North Carroll Street, Gerhard K. Gabriel is looking at books with Evelyn Miller, the reference librarian, looking on. |
| Date: | 10 20 1947 |
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| Description: | Helen Jansky, librarian, in charge of circulation, helping Elmer Brussow at the card catalog in the Madison Free Library, 206 North Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 07 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Joanne Togstad, a recent graduate of Edgewood High School, stands near the newspaper rack at her University of WIsconsin library summer job. |
| 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 librarian checks out a book to a young girl, while other children sit at tables reading in the background. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seat... |
| 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: | 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 1951 |
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| Description: | State Historical Society employee Joyce Hancock examines a replica of Cyrus McCormick's first reaper. |
| Date: | 11 1951 |
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| Description: | State Historical Society employee Joyce Hancock with a model of Cyrus McCormick's first reaper. |
| 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: | 1906 |
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| Description: | A view of the interior in the new Madison Public Library when it was located in the city hall, West Mifflin Street. Two boys read at a table in the foregro... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Protest on the Library Mall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in support of the grape boycott. A woman stands on the sidewalk speaking at a microphone... |
| 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: | 01 08 1959 |
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| Description: | Shelves at the new Lakeview branch library at Troy and Northport Drives are being stacked in preparation for the library's grand opening. Mrs. Dianne Lee (... |
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