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| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State College (later renamed the University of Wisconsin-Platteville). The Student Union is in final stages of construction, and in the foregroun... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison. The building is now Music Hall. Two statues are in a stained glass window alcove, and portraits line the second floor balc... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Girl standing next to "Sifting and Winnowing" memorial plaque at the entrance to Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison ca... |
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| Description: | Group portrait of students and faculty of the Teachers' Institute. |
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| Description: | "Theresa Documentary. Black & White Photos By Jim Widmer." |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | An interior view of the Wisconsin State Treasurer, Sewell A. Peterson, home on South Fairchild Street. The photograph is taken looking through the parlor a... |
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| Description: | "Theresa Documentary 1975, 76, 77, 78, & 79. Black & White Photos by Jim Widmer." |
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| Description: | "Theresa Documentary 1983, 84, & 85. Volume D. Black & White Photos by Jim Widmer." |
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| Description: | "Theresa Documentary, 1986, 87, 88, & 89, Volume E, Black & White Photos by Jim Widmer." |
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| Description: | Cover of Jim Widmer's "Focus On Theresa" series. Text reads, "How we looked in the late 1940s & 1950s." |
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| Description: | Cover image for the Theresa Documentary 1981, 82, & 83. Volume C. Black & White Photos by Jim Widmer. |
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| Description: | View towards a boy standing outdoors in the grass leaning against a table with photo albums stacked on it. A fence is in the background, and a buggy is par... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Otto G. Ansorge sits in his home on Lake Avenue and reads. Ansorge was a jeweler and band director in Winneconne. |
| Date: | 06 2002 |
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| Description: | The inside cover for "Theresa Documentary" describes Widmer's reason for creating the compilation and dedicates the series to his wife, Shirley. |
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| Description: | Three people are posing in front of the entrance to a log house with a frame board addition. On the left a young woman is holding an open umbrella to block... |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | The playground director from the board of education's recreation division reads a story to children at the Wirth Court playground during storybook hour. |
| Date: | 03 13 1947 |
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| Description: | Mrs. F.I. (Betty Neef) Sanna and her three children, Susan (3), David (6), and Kathryn (5), are new residents of Maple Bluff, having moved from Minneapolis... |
| Date: | 02 15 1949 |
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| Description: | Doris Peterson of Dodgeville, and Niles Ernst of Green Bay, look over the display of pocket editions of books operated by John C. Leonard at the Union Bus ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A college student setting out to class in zero degree weather. He is holding his books, and is wearing a hat and gloves, and has a scarf wrapped around his... |
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| Description: | Muriel and Laurie Peterson, stopped on a country road near Scandinavia, looking something up in a dictionary. |
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