Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 339

Book or Pamphlet

A Choice of Routes To Efficiency

Date: 05 25 1915
Description: A chart showing pathways between education and work.
Photograph

Norman P. Mitby

Date: 07 01 1960
Description: Norman Mitby, the new director of the Madison Vocational and Adult school, standing next to a door marked "Directors Office."
Photograph

Madison Police Cadet Training

Date: 11 21 1958
Description: A police officer instructs two cadets on the operation of radar equipment and the proper way to talk to violators. The officer is holding a tuning fork nea...
Photograph

Local Homemakers Making Holiday Preparations

Date: 12 02 1958
Description: Group of grandmothers from a clothing class at Madison Vocational and Adult School that make clothing for their grandchildren. Genevieve Sorenson (left) ad...
Photograph

Madison Police Cadet Training

Date: 11 21 1958
Description: A policeman and two police cadets examine a large file of folders and papers containing warrants to violators who ignore parking and traffic arrest tickets...
Photograph

Madison Police Cadet Training

Date: 11 21 1958
Description: Cadet Policeman Daniel Writt is shown receiving training and directing traffic at the State Street corner of Capitol Square, while in the foreground, Donal...
Postcard

Indian School

Date: 06 22 1942
Description: Text on front reads: "U.S. Indian School, Tomah Wis." Opened in 1893, the Tomah Indian Industrial School was intended to teach Indian children how to shed ...
Photograph

Madison Altrusa Club Annual Country Fair

Date: 04 25 1958
Description: One of the philanthropic projects of the Madison Altrusa Club's annual country fair proceeds is scholarships for young women to take the practical nurse's ...
Postcard

Training School

Date: 09 02 1908
Description: Text on front reads: "Training School, Rice Lake, Wis." A large, wood sided structure with a tower and porch. The school has a concrete sidewalk and is sur...
Photograph

Sam Bonano Modelling Clay

Date: 10 27 1932
Description: Sam Bonano, 17, 713 Milton Street, modelling clay into images of the Nativity at Madison Vocational School.
Photograph

Man Weaving at a Loom

Date: 12 02 1932
Description: Man weaving at Reed Manufacturing loom, in the Vocational School crafts class at Brayton School, 301 E. Washington Avenue.
Photograph

Earl W. Barnhart

Date: 11 08 1937
Description: Earl W. Barnhardt sitting at a desk at Groves School for Secretaries, 502 State Street.
Photograph

Red Cross First Aid Training

Date: 02 11 1942
Description: Two women applying bandages to a female patient with a nurse looking on. They are Wisconsin State Capitol employees learning first aid from the Red Cross.
Photograph

Classroom in Groves School for Secretaries

Date: 11 08 1937
Description: Classroom in Groves School for Secretaries, on the first floor at 502 State Street, in the former Branch Bank of Wisconsin building.
Photograph

Classroom in Groves School for Secretaries

Date: 11 08 1937
Description: Classroom on West Gilman Street side, Groves School for Secretaries, 502 State Street.
Photograph

Three Men Working at Crafts Projects

Date: 12 02
Description: Jobless workers in the Vocational School class working on their crafts projects, O.W. Smith, Lewis A. Russett, Rudolph Beckman.
Photograph

Vocational School Speech Class

Date: 02 04 1954
Description: Armanda Schmelzer expressing a thought during a speech class at the Madison Vocational school.
Photograph

Vocational School Speech Class

Date: 02 04 1954
Description: Florence Baskerville directing a speech class at the Madison Vocational school.
Photograph

Vocational School Speech Class

Date: 02 04 1954
Description: Jerry Capps, a salesman, giving a speech and demonstration during a speech class at the Madison Vocational school.
Photograph

Vocational School Speech Class

Date: 02 04 1954
Description: As preparation for speech class at the Madison Vocational School, Olga Toltzien is reading from The American Observer.

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: