Date: | 09 1887 |
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Description: | A group portrait of Civil War veterans and their families pose in front of the Milwaukee armory building at the reunion of The Iron Brigade. |
Date: | 08 13 1928 |
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Description: | An exhibition of flying by the 1st Pursuit Squadron of the U.S. Army Air Corps. The event took place at Marathon Park because President Calvin Coolidge, wh... |
Date: | 08 26 1932 |
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Description: | Locomotive float which won honorable mention for the Dane County American Legion Voiture No. 683 of the 40 et 8, a replica of French transportation during ... |
Date: | 03 25 1944 |
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Description: | Wendell Willkie speaks with Carroll L. Coon, Commander of Madison's William B. Cairns American Legion Post No. 57, during Willkie's 1944 campaign for the P... |
Date: | 05 23 1944 |
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Description: | Mayor Halsey Kraege buys the first poppy from Mrs. John Coyne, Veterans of Foreign Wars Poppy Day sale chairman of the VFW Auxiliary. Left to right: Joseph... |
Date: | 10 05 1944 |
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Description: | Four members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, including Mrs. Hazel Miller, the national president, in a horse-drawn carriage in front of the Chic... |
Date: | 05 11 1945 |
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Description: | Madison Disabled American Veterans (DAV) officials, Mark R. Kilp, left, Adjutant G. Earl Heath, center, and right, Postmaster Walter J. Hyland inspect a sh... |
Date: | 05 21 1946 |
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Description: | Group portrait of members of the newly established Veterans of Foreign Wars Post at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, the first of its kind on a ... |
Date: | 06 28 1946 |
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Description: | Captain Joseph W. Bollenbeck (right), presenting VFW Distinguished Service Citations to Col. W.S. Middleton, University of Wisconsin Dean of Medicine; Sgt.... |
Date: | 02 21 1947 |
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Description: | Charles V. LaDuke, 416 North Butler Street, chief of the guidance section of the Veterans Administration in Madison, greets Eugene A. McDonald of Janesvill... |
Date: | 09 12 1949 |
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Description: | A gathering of officers and members of the Wisconsin Department of the American Legion, probably at their annual state convention. In Wisconsin the ardent ... |
Date: | 03 01 1948 |
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Description: | James F. O'Neil, center, pictured with Governor Oscar Rennebohm, left, and Herman C. Runge, department commander. O'Neal was the top speaker, Rennebohm was... |
Date: | 04 15 1948 |
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Description: | Six World War I veterans at a "Red Arrow" veterans dinner honoring Bishop William P. O'Connor who was a chaplain of Wisconsin's 32nd division in World War ... |
Date: | 08 26 1948 |
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Description: | Lyle T. Beggs, standing on the steps of a Milwaukee Road train, as he is about to leave for VFW camp where he is expected to be elected national commander ... |
Date: | 11 11 1948 |
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Description: | Color bearers from the National Guard, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the two American Legion posts, the Spanish-American War veterans, their auxiliaries, a... |
Date: | 11 11 1948 |
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Description: | Robert Babcock, Lodi, places the American Legion auxiliary post Number 57 memorial wreath at the front of the memorial obelisk on the grounds of the Wiscon... |
Date: | 11 11 1948 |
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Description: | American Legion members in front of a plane at the Madison airport. Membership Chairman R.C. Golden is handing 1949 membership cards to the pilot Colonel L... |
Date: | 11 14 1948 |
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Description: | Madison Legion Auxiliary tea at the American Legion clubhouse, 110 West Wilson Street. At the serving table are, left to right: Mrs Oscar (Louise) Onsgard,... |
Date: | 11 23 1948 |
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Description: | At a VFW banquet, Lyall T. Beggs, national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, was honored by the VFW and Madison citizens at the Hotel Loraine in t... |
Date: | 03 02 1949 |
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Description: | Lyall T. Beggs, former legislator from Madison and presently national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, being escorted to the speaker's rostrum in... |
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