Eldred on library construction plans freeing the $10,000 bequest from her husband, 28 September...
Cullen and Brother and the City of Janesville, 19, March 1902.
...as flyers and programs of the 1912 conference of the Wisconsin State Library Association hosted by the JPL.
...Ottman collection Child reading Visit the Library Good Book Week Holiday Greetings Bulletin Board China Book Week Various photos of...Adah Eldred Ten Years Growth in library volumes and circulation, 1924-1934,...Some exhibits of JPL, circa 1930s-40s
The Sumerians thrived inthe fourth millennium B.c., and the Akkadians built an empire in central and southern Iraq about...
Inthe fourth century B.c., a cosmopolitan civilization was es- tablished in Mesopotamia by the Greeks. A golden era of prosperity and brilliant civilization in Iraq and the greatest in Islamic history was during the Abbasid Caliphate (650-1258).
...doubled from 6.5 mil- lion inthe1930s to 14 million inthe 1980s.
Mead, whom he had appointed to the faculty in 1908.
By 1920 the names Van Hise, Leith, and Mead had become legendary in geological circles around the world, thus attracting students and...from as far away as China and Japan as well as Europe. During the interwar years of the 1920s and 1930s, the repu- tation was enhanced by the migration of many young geologists...a still largely colonial world in search of ores to feed the furnaces of industry and petroleum to fuel the automobiles of increasingly mobile societies.
The prin- ciples which they expound run through the whole of this work, in places disguised in modern jargon, elsewhere modified by more recent advances in knowledge, but it was they who instilled in me the importance of minor structures inthe elucida- tion of the major structures inthe field.
By Sara Leuchter "Among the events of recent West- ern history that today reside in our consciousness," writes Robert Skloot in his introduction to The Theatre of the Holocaust, "none is more disturbing than the Holo- caust.
The four plays cannot be consid- ered as traditional theatre which in- corporates a Holocaust theme, such as The Diary ofAnne Frank or The Man inthe Glass Booth.
...Skloot concludes, "Our seeing them [the characters] in ac- tion allows their behavior to be- come included inthe schedule of options available to us in a time of (and in spite of the most extreme physical degredation and...
...insightful interpreters of Mao Zedong. The first of these was Edgar...American journalist who while working inChina during the mid- 1930s, was drawn to the commu- nist base area at...
...it is pertinent to recall the troubles of the1930s when the milk strikes reflected the desper- ation of farm families.
Practically all of Wisconsin was involved inthe strike.
...a few elms and maples inthe yard, but the great line of trees is all gone. Inthe begin. ning there were some Douglas firs that the early settlers had planted.
Despite some of the bloodiest moments in U.S. labor history-the Republic Steel Memorial Day Massacre in Chicago, the Flint Sit-Down Strike, the Ford "Service Department" beatings of...leaders at River Rouge, all in '37-the rank-and-file resurrected the union movement inthe1930s.
The all-time high temperature in Gazette record books is the 110.5 degrees on July 13,...stretches of days with temperatures inthe 90s and 100s were not uncommon. In 1932, the daily high temperature did not...19 days-July 10-28-and directly invest in stocks, the companies that employed them also were huge losers inthe crash, and the public followed the market with the same passion that it followed...
Many families already were in debt for the first time in their lives, buying cars and appliances on the new installment plan.
In rooms where marble floor tiles...and a marble plinth marked the transition from the floor to the quarter-sawn white oak door casings. The laboratory inthe southwest corner of the wing had marble wall panels similar to those installed in toilet rooms.
...men's toilet room was located inthe northeast corner of the wing.
Inthe ceilings immediately above, two banks...block provide borrowed light from the glass ceiling inthe barrel vault.