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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The Beloit Public Library. Caption reads: "Public Library, Beloit, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the library. Caption reads: "Beloit College Library, Beloit, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of library. Caption reads: "Eager Free Public Library, Evansville, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View from street towards the library. Caption reads: "Eager Free Public Library, Evansville, Wis." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Eager Free Public Library. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Janesville Public Library on South Main Street. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Janesville Public Library. Caption reads: "Public Library, Janesville, Wis." |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard showing an exterior view of the Carnegie Library. A small group of children is gathered on the stairs at the front of the building. C... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Janesville Public Library. There is large librarian's desk, with a bust of Abraham Lincoln to the right. Behind the desk are two colum... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Janesville Public Library. Among the room are reading tables, bentwood chairs, light fixtures hanging from the tall ceiling, and two c... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Janesville Public Library. There are several display cases filled with taxidermy, including a pelican, and coral. There is a deer head... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Janesville Public Library. The library opened in 1903 and was funded by Andrew Carnegie at $30,000 and Eldred at $10,000. The reverse ... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Janesville Public Library. The reverse of the cardboard backing reads: "IV Waterbirds, Ducks, Gulls, Pelican." A second note reads: "C... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Janesville Public Library. The library opened in 1903 and was funded by Andrew Carnegie at $30,000 and Eldred at $10,000. The reverse ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Third Wisconsin Civil War veterans' reunion, posed on the lawn in front of the Beloit Public Library. |
| Photographs of Public Libraries in Wisconsin |
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| Learn about how the Wisconsin Free Library Commission helped to establish and improve free public libraries in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of the Beloit College campus. From left to right the buildings are identified by handwriting: library, art hall, men's gymnasium, middle col... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of the exterior view of the Colonel Robert H. Morse Library at Beloit College. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored view of the public library, a red brick building with bay windows flanking the entrance. Caption reads: "Eager Free Public Library, Evansville... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view of an ivy-covered library. Caption reads: "Carnegie Library, Janesville, Wis." |
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