Students and faculty who went to Chicago to tour special libraries pose outside the Library School in front of a car. Original caption: "People said they'd never make it. Of the six who went only Mr. Dewey was certain they would. The six set out on...
Picture of the students that were class officers for 1955. Original caption: "The Class Officers who managed to keep eight hands and four noses in business -- big and little."
Candid photograph of Professor Harry Dewey, cataloging instructor, in front of bookshelves and a portable turntable. Original caption: "Mr. Dewey who was never this surprised at anything we did."
A foreign student gives a presentation in a children's literature course. Original caption: "The other student is a displaced person from Latvia who will serve in American libraries when he completes his school work. There is also a national of...
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....
Reference from an unknown source about the commencement exercises. Thirty-three students were graduated. Richard Loyd Jones, who in a few words outlined the usefulness of a library to the community, delivered the lecture of the evening. M.S...
Graduation; Special events (lectures, conference, exhibits)
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