Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 603

Photograph

Wendell Willkie and Aaron Martin Brayton

Date: 03 1944
Description: Wendell Willkie visits with Aaron Martin Brayton, retired editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, on his bed in a local hospital room during Willkie'...
Photograph

Senator Jess Miller Auctioning Dog

Date: 01 20 1944
Description: Senator Jess Miller auctioning a Collie puppy in front of a WIBA microphone in the Wisconsin State Capitol. Governor Goodland donated the proceeds of the s...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Legislature

Date: 01 11 1951
Description: The Wisconsin State Legislature listens to an address from Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr. The State Senators are seated in the first row, including Melvin ...
Photograph

Grocery Store Checkout Counter

Date: 01 13 1955
Description: Two clerks at a grocery store checkout counter with a woman and child purchasing milk and bread. The shelves behind the register are stocked with a selecti...
Photograph

Student using Typewriter

Date: 01 17 1955
Description: Richard Jefferson completing his PhD thesis on a rented typewriter in the Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin.
Photograph

Cherokee School Dance

Date: 11 16 1956
Description: Male teacher and a student bowing to one another at the beginning of a dance at the Cherokee Heights School dance party.
Photograph

William Hobbins in Costume

Date: 02 08 1955
Description: William Suhr Hobbins, master of ceremonies for the Madison Art Association Beaux Arts Ball, in a large nightgown on which he painted a modernistic art pict...
Photograph

Volunteers of America Dinner

Date: 11 26 1952
Description: Bessie Koen serves the first course of the traditional turkey-and-trimmings dinner to James Eckert. Dinner was served by the Volunteers of America to 56 me...
Photograph

Walt Kelly & Pogo on Book Tour

Date: 09 26 1952
Description: Cartoonist Walt Kelly at Central High School with a person dressed as one of his characters, Pogo. He is showing a drawing to a group of students.
Photograph

West Side Benefit League Officers

Date: 12 17 1952
Description: Newly installed officers of the West Side Benefit League which was organized by the West Side Business Men's Association to furnish immediate funds to the ...
Photograph

Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman

Date: 01 05 1953
Description: Portrait of Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman in formal dress at the inaugaration of state officers. He was beginning his tenth term in that office.
Photograph

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Wise, Sr.

Date: 01 08 1955
Description: Wisconsin's new Secretary of State, Glenn M. Wise, pours coffee for her husband, John E. Wise, Sr., who is an electrical engineer with the state Industrial...
Photograph

Drum and Bugle Corps Officials

Date: 04 17 1955
Description: Three men at a table at a contest clinic for drum & bugle corps officials held at the Madison Community Center.
Photograph

Maurice Klinke

Date: 01 17 1944
Description: Portrait of Maurice Klinke (?), who is in a suit standing and pointing.
Photograph

Reverend Elgar F. Mindorff

Date: 02 04 1944
Description: Reverend Elgar F. Mindorff, not long after being released from a Japanese military prison in China.
Photograph

Rosemaled Chests

Date: 1941
Description: Mr. Per Lysne admiring rosemaled chests.
Photograph

Arlie W. Schorger

Date: 02 20 1944
Description: Arlie W. Schorger, a chemist for the U.S. Bureau of Standards for one year, and at the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory for nine years, before joining the f...
Photograph

Rabbi Theodore H. Gordon

Date: 02 19 1944
Description: Portrait of Rabbi Theodore Gordon, Director of Hillel Foundation at the University of Wisconsin.
Photograph

Columbus Foods Corporation Employee Receiving Award

Date: 02 06 1944
Description: L.C. Richards, assistant factory superintendent of the Columbus Foods Corporation, receiving the first "A" Achievement award pin from Donald E. Smith, depu...
Photograph

War Work Awards Presentation Ceremony

Date: 03 13 1944
Description: Gordon Gunderson, State Supervisor, Office of Distribution, War Food Administration, watches as Corp. David Moul, Lodi, pins a citation on the lapel of Gor...

Have Questions?

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: