Miscellaneous correspondence and memoranda, 1903-1957.

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Miscellaneous correspondence and memoranda, 1903-1957.

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Miscellaneous correspondence, manuscripts, memoranda, clippings, news releases, pamphlets, circulars, photographs, bills and statements, drafts of legislative bills, reports, and other papers filed by M.S. Dudgeon and C.B. Lester, former secretaries to the Commission, and relating to all aspects of Commission activity. The summary above refers to the processed portion of the series, dated 1904-1948. Additional accessions are described below, 1908-1950.

15.6 c.f. (39 archives boxes); plusadditions of 3.7 c.f.

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Wisconsin Historical Society Archives

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Lester, Clarence Brouwn, 1877-

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Dudgeon, Matthew Simpson, 1871-1949.

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Legler, Henry Eduard, 1861-1917

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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 ...