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| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Teenagers studying and playing pool at the Eagle's Nest, a popular teen hangout in downtown Sauk-Prairie. The Eagle's Nest had a juke-box, but the WVLR (Wi... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Several men broadcasting via radio from the University of Wisconsin gymnasium during a basketball game. |
| Date: | 09 02 1931 |
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| Description: | Governor Philip F. La Follette, the younger son of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., addressing a crowd in the grandstand at the Wisconsin State Fair in ... |
| Date: | 07 29 1954 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., speaking into the microphone on the WLS stage at the Wisconsin State Fair. At the time the Chicago station was best known f... |
| Date: | 01 02 1953 |
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| Description: | Football coach Ivy Williamson (?) is interviewed by a man with a radio transmitter on the steps of the airplane upon his return from the Rose Bowl game. |
| Date: | 04 27 1946 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin School of the Air program, featuring Fanny Steve at the piano leading a group of children in a rhythm game. Her popular show, "Rhythm and Games" ... |
| Date: | 08 16 1946 |
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| Description: | Arthur Bramhall, at a microphone, gesturing as he announces a sports event. Behind him is the identifying emblem for NBC WIBA radio affiliate. |
| Date: | 10 1946 |
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| Description: | WIBA prize winners. Two couples seated behind a WIBA microphone with four Robin Hood White Flour posters on the wall. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A group of radio broadcasters working from a radio control room at the Iowa State Fair. An International Harvester clock is mounted on the booth's outside ... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Actress Betty Wells sitting next to a man, possibly a KRNT radio personality, for a simultaneous radio and television broadcast from the Iowa State Fair. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A KRNT radio broadcaster sitting on a platform above a horse track at the Iowa State Fair as another man on the right is filming the race for television. A... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A crowd gathers around the International Harvester headquarters at the Iowa State Fair to watch a live broadcast from radio station KRNT. |
| Date: | 07 07 1949 |
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| Description: | A man, probably Ross Gordon or Pat Hernon, stands at a WKOW microphone while acting as the announcer for the Soap Box Derby. |
| Date: | 07 09 1949 |
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| Description: | A Soap Box Derby announcer (either Lon Landman or Dwaine Tucker) sitting at a WIBA microphone. |
| Date: | 07 17 1953 |
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| Description: | WIBA truck and two radio broadcasters on south Midvale Boulevard, the site of the Madison Soap Box Derby. |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | "Radio personality, Gordon Hinkley, appeared in the WTMJ radio booth at the Wisconsin State Fair." |
| Date: | 05 24 1957 |
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| Description: | The WIBA automatic telephone system which will give latest baseball scores is tested on first day of operation. Shown testing the phones are Norman Hahn, W... |
| Date: | 05 24 1957 |
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| Description: | Sue Collins jots down scores she hears transmitted by the new recorder machine as radio station WIBA's automatic telephone system is in operation for the f... |
| Date: | 09 16 1953 |
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| Description: | Speaker at podium giving a talk at the Lions Club Constitution Day luncheon in front of WISC microphones. |
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