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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Office of SHSW Librarian
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Minnie Oakley, assistant librarian of the Wisconsin Historical Society, seated at her desk in the South Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol. This photograph, combined with a similar portrait of Emma Hawley, suggests that librarians included aprons in their work wardrobes. This round portrait was taken by Reuben Gold Thwaites, secretary of the Historical Society and an avid amateur photographer, using the popular Kodak 2 format.
1892
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Office of Historical Society Librarian
1892
Emma Hawley, a Historical Society librarian, at her desk in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. After the Society purchased its first typewriter, Miss Hawley invented a device to a...
Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Historical Society Librarian's Office
April 1892
Daniel Steele Durrie, librarian of the Wisconsin Historical Society, seated at his desk in the South Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol. This photograph was taken by Reuben Gold Thwaites, secreta...
Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Office of SHSW Historian
1900
Historian Emma Helen Blair, who supervised the Historical Society's maps and manuscripts collection during the 1890s and who aided the editorial projects of Society superintendent Reuben Gold Thwai...
Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Stacks of the Historical Society Library
May 1896
Minnie Oakley and Florence Baker Hayes (reaching for a book), two Historical Society librarians, during the period when the Society was housed in the South Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Deta...
Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Thwaites' Office
1897
Reuben Gold Thwaites, secretary of the State Historical Society, at his desk in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. Thwaites succeeded Lyman Draper as head of the Society in 1887, ...
Jessie Turvill Thwaites Picking Flowers
August 1896
Jessie Turville Thwaites, wife of Reuben Gold Thwaites, picks wildflowers.
