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| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Dr. Joseph Smith reads at his desk in his office in the Wisconsin Valley Trust Building. |
| Date: | 01 29 1945 |
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| Description: | With a backdrop of celebrity portrait photographs and stacks of coins on his desk, Hugh Flannery, manager of the Orpheum Theatre, is receiving a $100 War B... |
| Date: | 03 1944 |
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| 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'... |
| Date: | 06 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Romance Koopman and her son, Bobby Koopman. She did freelance writing and radio scripts, and was a winner of five national awards for writing. Her mother w... |
| Date: | 06 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Curlee Seals, Jr. discussing plans for his 1949 Soap Box Derby racer with three members of the Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce, Curlee's sponsor for the... |
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| Description: | A man is reading at a desk, while a woman writes on a pad of paper seated nearby in an office at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Professor Perry Holden (right) and an unidentified man sitting at a desk and looking over promotional materials from International Harvester's Agricultural... |
| Date: | 12 15 1981 |
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| Description: | John A. Lavine of Chippewa Falls, head of the Lavine Newspaper Group and publisher of several Wisconsin newspapers. |
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| Description: | Dr. Edward L. Miloslavich (center), formerly a Milwaukee police surgeon, seen here in his office in Zagred, Yugoslavia. Dr. Miloslavich played a role in th... |
| Date: | 02 23 1978 |
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| Description: | "Robert O. Baker, president of Baker Canning Company. They pack peas and corn and are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fall River Canning Company." |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey, chair of the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, discussing foreign policy issues with his st... |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a female domestic abuse counselor sitting at a desk holding a bible with a rope-noose around it. |
| Date: | 04 10 1957 |
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| Description: | Virginia Strickland, a senior at East High School, demonstrating making a good first impression at a job interview by smiling warmly, maintaining an alert ... |
| Date: | 06 1970 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey and his secretary in his office in the United States Capitol. |
| Date: | 08 2004 |
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| Description: | A man poses with an old telephone, one of the artifacts at the Solomon Juneau House. |
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| Description: | Governor John J. Blaine, Wisconsin's 24th governor, sits in an office next to a desk in a leather chair. Papers, books and a telephone are on the desk. On ... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | A large crowd of journalists, reporters, and camera operators are standing or sitting while watching two small screens set up on a table in the spin room. ... |
| Date: | 02 11 2016 |
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| Description: | During a commercial break from the television broadcast Democratic presidential debate hosted by PBS News Hour, candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clint... |
| Date: | 02 11 2016 |
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| Description: | During a commercial break from the television broadcast of the Democratic presidential debate hosted by PBS News Hour, candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillar... |
| Date: | 02 11 2016 |
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| Description: | View of journalists sitting behind long tables working in the media filing center during the debate. A man sitting in the foreground is looking down at his... |
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