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| Date: | 10 28 1964 |
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| Description: | The entrance area of the new public library under construction on the corner of Fairchild and Mifflin streets. |
| Date: | 07 28 1964 |
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| Description: | Joan Nagamatsu, 2110 University Avenue, a native of Hawaii, teaching the Hula to children at the Madison Public Library, 206 North Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 07 28 1964 |
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| Description: | Joan Nagamatsu, 2110 University Avenue, a native of Hawaii, illustrating hula movements to a group of young children at the Madison Public Library, 206 Nor... |
| Date: | 03 11 1961 |
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| Description: | Library patrons crowded together at the card catalog. The photograph is one of a series showing the crowded conditions at the Madison Public Library at 206... |
| Date: | 06 10 1965 |
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| Description: | The lobby and check-out desk at the new Madison Public Library located at 201 West Mifflin Street. One of a series of photographs showing rooms at the new ... |
| Date: | 03 11 1961 |
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| Description: | Men and women crowd around two library tables while reading. The photograph is one of a series showing the crowded conditions at the Madison Public Library... |
| Date: | 01 14 1964 |
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| Description: | Members of the arts study group of the Monona American Association of University Women have undertaken the framing of pictures to be rented to the public t... |
| Date: | 06 10 1965 |
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| Description: | Three librarians are sitting at desks in one of the workrooms in the new Madison Public Library at 201 West Mifflin Street. The librarians are Ann Davison,... |
| Date: | 06 10 1965 |
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| Description: | The young adult section of the new Madison Public Library at 201 West Mifflin Street. Librarians Virginia Stavn and Marilee Foglesong are working in the ba... |
| Date: | 05 15 1964 |
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| Description: | Social Security district manager Sydney S. Miller (left) presents awards for outstanding work in public service to clerical staff members at the Madison So... |
| Date: | 08 13 1965 |
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| Description: | H.O. Lord, Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District chief engineer, outlining the existing sewerage district on a map. Lord is trying to educate the public c... |
| Date: | 08 13 1965 |
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| Description: | Three men posing with a plaque. The original caption states: "An award for meritorious public service was presented to CUNA International officials by W.S.... |
| Date: | 11 17 1961 |
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| Description: | Newburgh, N.Y. City Manager Joseph Mitchell, pictured here, gave a talk to University of Wisconsin Conservation Club about reducing federal and state welfa... |
| Date: | 03 11 1961 |
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| Description: | Young people crowded around library tables laden with stacks of books. The photograph is one of a series showing the crowded conditions at the Madison Publ... |
| Date: | 03 28 1961 |
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| Description: | Former Vice-President Henry Wallace giving a speech at the the Wisconsin Center at the special Benjamin Hibbard Memorial Lecture. In it, he calls price-wag... |
| Date: | 04 13 1961 |
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| Description: | A mother with her baby and young son is working on her tax form at the state tax office in the City-County building as the tax deadline nears. |
| Date: | 09 08 1961 |
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| Description: | New teachers listening intently at an orientation meeting. The teachers, new to the Madison public schools, left to right (starting second from the left) a... |
| Date: | 06 09 1965 |
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| Description: | Passerby looking at "Heiroglyph," a sculpture made by O.V. Shaffer, Beloit, located in front of the new Madison Public Library, 201 West Mifflin Street. Th... |
| Date: | 05 27 1964 |
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| Description: | Seen from the rear, Carl Forsberg, president of Wisconsin Power and Light (WPL) company, is addressing a crowd of about 400 shareholders during a meeting a... |
| Date: | 06 09 1965 |
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| Description: | A man and woman are looking at the "Heiroglyph," a sculpture by O.V. Schaffer, Beloit, in front of the new Madison Public Library, 201 West Mifflin Street.... |
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