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| 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: | 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: | 1951 |
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| Description: | An interior view of a house at 524 North Henry Street, showing the living room from the library. |
| Date: | 01 28 1954 |
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| Description: | A man is studying material from the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street. |
| 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: | 01 28 1954 |
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| Description: | A man is reading a book while sitting in a chair at the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 02 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Sylvia Nuckles checking out a book from Bert Rogers, the driver and circulation staff for the Madison Free Library bookmobile. |
| Date: | 01 28 1954 |
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| Description: | A girl is sitting and working with material in the reference room of the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 01 28 1954 |
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| Description: | View between bookshelves towards a man finding a place to pause and rest in the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street. |
| 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: | 01 28 1954 |
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| Description: | A student is looking through the card catalog (or what the newspaper calls "the library's key, a simple cross-filer system") at the Madison Free Library at... |
| Date: | 02 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Ruth Culliney and Jeanette Dega browse books on the shelves of the Madison Free Library bookmobile parked in the Lakeview Heights neighborhood, a new city ... |
| 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: | 09 22 1957 |
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| Description: | A young woman is peering into a drawer of the card catalog of the Madison Public Library. |
| Date: | 09 22 1957 |
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| Description: | A man sitting and reading from a book at the Madison Public Central Library. |
| Date: | 02 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Timmy and Joan Becker are reading a book by the shelves in the Madison Free Library bookmobile, which is parked in the Lakeview Heights neighborhood, a new... |
| Date: | 02 09 1954 |
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| Description: | The Madison Free Library bookmobile is pulling up in the Lakeview Heights neighborhood, a new city housing development. The bookmobile is an outfitted bus.... |
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