Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: Subject of Documents
Filter: Subject of clothing and dress
Filter: Year of 1900-1999
Filter: Year of 1950-1959
| Date: | 07 1959 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Governor Gaylord Nelson signing the bill which created Menominee County as the state's 72nd county. The new county consisted of those portions of Shawano a... |
| Date: | 05 15 1952 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Kenneth Duckett and Alan E. Kent, historians employed by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, using the microfilm reader in the Society's old, first ... |
| Date: | 10 20 1957 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Portrait of Milwaukee Braves manager Fred Haney holding his new contract. Under his management In 1957, with a lineup that included future Baseball Hall... |
| Date: | 01 24 1950 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Mrs. Lindley V. (Virginia) Sprague and Mrs. George (Dorothy) Rentschler with the publicity materials they will use at information desks for the Madison Hea... |
| Date: | 1954 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 40 signing a "Joe Must Go" petition to recall Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. |
| Date: | 10 12 1951 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Madison mayor George Forster signs the proclamation to observe Oil Progress Week, while Arnold Wake (center), the general chairman for the observance, and ... |
| Date: | 03 07 1952 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Erna Schweppe showing members of her Troop No. 6 at Washington Orthopedic school a proclamation by Governor Walter Kohler recognizing the 40th anniversary ... |
| Date: | 06 13 1952 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Dane County marriage license clerk Mercedes Dufour, (left), issues a license to Lucille A. Roth and Amos M. Skogen for their leap year wedding at the East ... |
| Date: | 06 28 1952 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Two men from C.C. Collins and Sons, Inc. look over a color chart for their racers with two boys they are sponsoring in the soap box derby race. Left to rig... |
| Date: | 09 1951 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A British soldier or police officer and a civilian on the bridge between the British area of Hong Kong and Communist China. |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Algerian National Liberation Front members conducting a meeting in a tent. The men are sorting through papers and talking. There is a radio beside them. |
| Date: | 1955 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Front cover of the International Harvester Company's annual report, featuring a color photograph of a man operating a Farmall 400 tractor in a field. Farm ... |
| Date: | 04 01 1957 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Governor Vernon W. Thomson receives a gavel made by school children in Israel upon his signing of a proclamation of World Jewish Child's Day. Members of th... |
| Date: | 11 18 1957 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A welcome proclamation for nearly 400 state members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Jaycettes is prepared in the office of Mayor Ivan Nestingen, ... |
| Date: | 09 19 1959 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Group portrait of the charter presentation to the Madison Dominic Club. Left to right are: Larry Loomis of St. Paul, Minnesota, vice-president of the state... |
| Date: | 1955 |
|---|---|
| Description: | City Treasurer D.J. Leigh with an associate, sorting records. |
| Date: | 1955 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Mary Herb (left), the Wisconsin State Student Nursing Association President and Signe Skott Cooper (right), Wisconsin State Student Nursing Association Adv... |
| Date: | 1958 |
|---|---|
| Description: | View at night in Lebanon of a man sitting behind a table and smoking. He is illuminated by a lamp on the right. Other men stand behind him. In the foregrou... |
| Date: | 04 1954 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Several men are standing and sitting around a desk, where one man is signing a document. A calendar for the Norris Wholesale Corporation is on the wall beh... |
If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.
Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at:
