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Hawthorne Branch Library Remodeling

Date: 03 26 1958
Description: Remodeling is underway for the new Hawthorne Branch Library at 2041 Atwood Avenue. This library location replaced the Williamson Street branch library and ...
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National Library Week

Date: 03 14 1958
Description: Five Edgewood High School Library Club members are preparing posters for the observance of National Library Week. Meeting in the library by bookshelves, th...
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U.W. Freshmen Welcome

Date: 09 11 1958
Description: A long line of U.W freshmen students on the Library Mall waiting to enter the Memorial Library to register for the fall semester. The Wisconsin Historical ...
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Library Display of Best Children's Books

Date: 04 02 1959
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...
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Shirley Schlanger Abrahamson in a Library

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Description: Shirley Abrahamson is standing in a library reaching for a book. A man is sitting in the foreground.
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Madison Free Library

Date: 01 28 1954
Description: A man is studying material from the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street.
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We Saw You . . . at the Library

Date: 09 22 1957
Description: A young woman is peering into a drawer of the card catalog of the Madison Public Library.
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We Saw You . . . at the Library

Date: 09 22 1957
Description: A man sitting and reading from a book at the Madison Public Central Library.
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Madison Free Library

Date: 01 28 1954
Description: A man is reading a book while sitting in a chair at the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street.
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Madison Free Library Bookmobile

Date: 02 09 1954
Description: Sylvia Nuckles checking out a book from Bert Rogers, the driver and circulation staff for the Madison Free Library bookmobile.
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Madison Free Library

Date: 01 28 1954
Description: A girl is sitting and working with material in the reference room of the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street.
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Madison Free Library

Date: 01 28 1954
Description: View between bookshelves towards a man finding a place to pause and rest in the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street.
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Madison Free Library

Date: 01 28 1954
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...
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Madison Free Library Bookmobile

Date: 02 09 1954
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 ...
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Madison Free Library Bookmobile

Date: 02 09 1954
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...
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We Saw You . . . at the Library

Date: 09 22 1957
Description: A man at the Madison Public Library is sitting at a table with reference books while using a pencil on paper, doing research. A stand for atlases is behind...
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We Saw You . . . at Madison Libraries

Date: 03 05 1958
Description: University of Wisconsin student Richard Merkel (1925 West Lawn Avenue) conducts research work in a U.W. Memorial Library carrel off of the book stacks.
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Madison Free Library Bookmobile

Date: 02 09 1954
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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Madison Public Library Groundbreaking Ceremony

Date: 10 29 1963
Description: Groundbreaking ceremony for the new Madison Public Library building at the south corner of W. Mifflin and N. Fairchild Streets. Rev. Joseph Brown is standi...
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NAACP Brotherhood Week Display at Madison Central Library

Date: 02 15 1961
Description: The Dane County National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Brotherhood Week display, including books, recordings and other material...

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