“Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory...” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
This bookcase miraculously escaped destruction from the 1904 fire of the Wisconsin State Capitol. The bookcase was located in the Office Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Photo via ~ http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=23144
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