Closer angled view of the entrance to the Library School, (second floor) located at the Madison Free Library. This picture accompanied two notices about touring the new Library School facility at 811 State Street.
Angled view of the Madison Free Library building located in the northwest corner of Carroll and Dayton Streets. The Wisconsin Library School was located on the second floor.
Thirty seven class members of the Training Camp sitting or standing in front of a building; the first front row of people sitting on the grass, the second front row of people sitting in chairs; the back two rows of people standing. Clarence Lester...
An example of a State of Wisconsin card that certifies a student with the position of Library Assistant in the Wisconsin Free Library Commission. This document was issued to students as they embarked on their practicum assignments.
Clarence B. Lester, Secretary of the Wisconsin Free Library Commission 1920-1949, on the steps of a University building. "To Mr. Lester, whom we are proud to call our friend, we dedicate our Log, as documentary evidence of the fact that we deeply...
Classroom in the University of Wisconsin Library School, located in the Madison Free Library. Each desk was provided with a lamp, ink and writing supplies, card catalog boxes and text books.
Miss Lucy M. Curtiss, School Secretary, and Miss Mary Katharine Reely, faculty member, pose beside the fountain and bronze statue called "Wildflower". The garden was on the Dayton Street lawn outside the Madison Free Library building
Newsclipping from the Library Journal, describing the graduation of the 1908 WLS class. It describes how Richard Rogers Bowker, editor of Library Journal, was going to be speaking at the event. Miss Isabelle Ely Lord, librarian at the Pratt...
Graduation; Special events (lectures, conference, exhibits)
News clipping from the State Journal describing that Miss Hazeltine offered iced-cold lemonade for examination writers of the library school: "Miss Mary Imogene Hazeltine, head of the Wisconsin library school is responsible for the new scheme....
[Cardinal - Dec. 1, 1939] The Wisconsin Library school has been definitely established as a part of the University of Wisconsin. During the academic year of the 1938-39 the school was temporarily under university jurisdiction, and a bill passed by...
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