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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Interior of the People's Bookstore. Close-up of magazine and pamphlet shelves with many titles visible. Titles include "The History of the Communist Manife... |
| Date: | 09 1900 |
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| Description: | View down Grand Avenue. Near a streetcar is the city's Civil War memorial, erected in 1898 by John Conway. |
| Date: | 10 01 1943 |
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| Description: | Scene from "Wac-Khaki" GI Review: Six WACs dressed in South Seas costumes, at the Wisconsin Memorial Union Theater. |
| Date: | 06 13 1944 |
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| Description: | Employees of Rennebohm Drug Store #2, 204 State Street, photographed in front of the store. The majority of the employees are waitresses. War bond posters ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Vignetted head and shoulders portrait of Esther (Sauer) Getts (1926- ) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Historical Museum has a set of pajamas a... |
| Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Virginia Rae Miller, a pinsetter at the Lathrop Hall bowling alley, about to return a bowling ball. Traditionally, this work was done exclusively by men b... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | Three people in costume behind a table. There is a man wearing a false beard a hat, holding a jug with three x's on it, a woman wearing a polka-dot blouse ... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Two well-dressed women in aprons and two smartly dressed men pose in front of the open entrance of J. Buntman's fruit and confectionery store at 1005 North... |
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| Description: | Seated carte-de-visite portrait of Catherine Fox Adamson, daughter of Dr. William Fox and wife of Civil War captain Frederick Adamson. She was also the sis... |
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| Description: | Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Catherine Fox Adamson, daughter of Dr. William Fox and wife of Civil War captain Frederick Adamson. She was also th... |
| Date: | 05 04 1950 |
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| Description: | Lucille Colt, a bank clerk and member of the WAC medical corps in World War II, presents an inscribed gavel to Harrison L. Garner, a board member who was r... |
| Date: | 10 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Depicting Florence Nightingale at the time of the Crimean war of 1853, a costumed Marie Timlin tends to "wounded soldier" Harold Hermanson. The enactment i... |
| Date: | 08 1918 |
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| Description: | Three women in nurse's uniforms are standing in a tent, where several children and women are seated on chairs. Displays of cribs, cloths (possibly diapers)... |
| Date: | 12 21 1945 |
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| Description: | Large Christmas tree in the waiting room of the Milwaukee Road Railroad Station, 644 West Washington Avenue, with passengers and the sign: "Give War Bonds,... |
| 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: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Demonstrators marching up Wisconsin Avenue with a banner that includes the text: "Stop The Bombing! Sign the Treaty Now! U.S. Out of Indochina Now!" |
| Date: | 07 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Seven women committee members plan a benefit program sponsored by the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee in the home of Mrs. Grant (Esther) Haas, 1518 Su... |
| Date: | 06 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Adelaide and Mrs. August Knoche (Lucille Knoche), mother and daughter, praying at Holy Redeemer Catholic, 128 W. Johnson Street, for the soldiers in Europe... |
| Date: | 06 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Mary Udulutch, 330 North Carroll Street, praying for her fiancé, Technical Sargent Ronald Whitehall, at the Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 131 West Johnson... |
| Date: | 08 28 1904 |
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| Description: | Maggie von der Sump, center, is holding a ring sausage as two teams of three women each pull on opposite ends of a thin rope. Maggie's sisters Leta, far le... |
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