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| Date: | 07 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Interior of Madison Public Library's new bookmobile. Librarian Doris Cruger is sitting at the desk inside Madison Public Library's new bookmobile. Standing... |
| Date: | 11 29 1953 |
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| Description: | Ruth Anderson, the music librarian at the Madison Public Library, adds another phonograph record to the library's phonographic record collection. |
| Date: | 07 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the new Madison Public Library bookmobile parked in front of the City-County building on Monona Boulevard. |
| 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: | 07 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Mayor Ivan Nestingen; Head Librarian Helen Farr; and Library Board Member A. Kermit Frater stand outside Madison Public Library's new bookmobile. An uniden... |
| Date: | 08 13 1957 |
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| Description: | Image is of Helen Farr, a Madison librarian who is retiring after forty-one years of service. For the past twenty-one years she has been the Chief Libraria... |
| Date: | 04 02 1959 |
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| Description: | An exhibit of 34 children's books at the Madison Public Library. They were chosen as the best books published for children in 1958. Pictured is Faith Hekto... |
| Date: | 03 05 1958 |
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| Description: | The Madison Bookmobile makes eleven stops in the city. Shown in the bookmobile are (left to right): Mrs. Tom Newport and son, Jim (5437 Dahlen Drive); libr... |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 03 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Dorothy Huston (1433 East Johnson Street), the reference division supervisor at the Madison Free Library's main branch at 201 West Mifflin Street, helps ma... |
| Date: | 11 18 1958 |
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| Description: | Madison library assistant Mrs. Ronald Labott, 313 S. Marquette Street, examines a model of the Brittingham redevelopment model. The "Triangle" redevelopmen... |
| 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: | 02 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Alice Volker, a city librarian, boarding the library's bookmobile to start the day's rounds. The bookmobile is an outfitted bus. |
| 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: | 07 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Gladys Dieruf, UW Extension librarian, looks at one of the arts and crafts reproductions collected by the University of Wisconsin Extension Bureau of Infor... |
| Date: | 01 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Jean Henriksen, a Madison Capital Times librarian, poses as the queen of the Wisconsin Press Photographers Association at the group's meeting in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 01 20 1958 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 01 27 1959 |
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| Description: | Jean Cooper, Wisconsin State Journal librarian. Portrait taken for the 10th anniversary of the newspaper moving to publishing of a morning edition. ... |
| Date: | 01 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Nancy Staudenraus, State Journal librarian and assistant Spelling Bee director, looks over 1954 Spelling Bee pamphlets as they come off the press. Ernest P... |
| Date: | 01 18 1958 |
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| Description: | Librarian friends at a tea honoring Katherine Middleton who is retiring after almost 32 years with the Wisconsin Free Library Commission. They are Jennie S... |
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