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Lucille Kellar
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Lucille Kellar, coordinator of the Historical Society's McCormick Collection, with the new cases for the collection. She is standing outside the north entrance to the Library and some exhibit cases can be seen behind her.
1955
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Construction in Library Periodical Room
January 1955
Construction work on the mezzanine shelving in the old Library Periodical Room. The old shelving was reconfigured, beams installed, and an small office created to house the Wisconsin Historical So...
New Wiring for SHSW Library
February 8, 1955
Electrician feeding cable into the electrical box on the north second floor hallway of th Wisconsin Historical Society. Changes in the library delivery area and lettering on the library doors can b...
Library Staff and Service Desk
February 8, 1955
Library staff members at the new consolidated service desk in the Historical Society Library Reading Room. Microfilm cubicles have not yet been installed and the original light fixtures on the wal...
Microfilm Users
May 15, 1952
Kenneth Duckett and Alan E. Kent, historians employed by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, using the microfilm reader in the Society's old, first floor manuscript room. Bound document col...
Wisconsin Historical Society Library
1955
Alternate view of the modernization of the Historical Society Library Reading Room completed in the mid-1950s. Most prominent here is the division of the space into functional areas and the additi...
Modernization in Periodicals Room
February 8, 1955
Modernization in the old Periodical Room (#227) including a view of the beams used to strengthen the mezzanine floor for the storage of the McCormick Collection.
