Papers, 1910-1920.

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Papers, 1910-1920.

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Papers of Matthew Simpson Dudgeon, a lawyer and librarian. Correspondence, 1910-1920, covers the years Dudgeon served as secretary of the Wisconsin Free Library Commission. Letters in 1913 refer to a trip he made to study cooperatives in Europe. There are also notes on cooperatives, libraries, and the law and public utilities; and twenty articles he wrote on European cooperatives.

3.2 c.f. (8 archives boxes); plusadditions of 13 photographs.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Dudgeon, Matthew Simpson, 1871-1949.

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Wisconsin Free Library Commission

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The Free Library Commission was established in 1895. It existed as an independent state agency until 1965. In 1965 the Legislature transferred the functions, personnel and properties of the Free Library Commission to the jurisdiction of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction as the Division for Library Serices (WIHV85-A897) in the Department of Public Instruction (WIHV86-A116). The Free Library commission was originally established to acquire and circulate books ...