click zoom to display a high-res image
Students with Model Airplanes at Marquette School
Image
Children of parents who work at war plants participate in after school recreation program at Marquette School. Shown standing behind a ping-pong table, with the model airplanes they built are: Earl Friis, Keith McKay, Arlen Ward, Lee Rogers and Harold Smith. It was thought to be the first attempt to supply after school recreation for students in the city.
January 19, 1944
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
Publication Information
Physical Description
Collection Information
Copyright Information
W011PVS
WHi 37853
Image
Digital Collections
Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
The Wisconsin Historical Society offers an ever-growing digital collection. Digitized materials reflect the full range of items in the collections including photographs, letters, newsletters, films, posters, architectural drawings, menus, and ephemera.
Attribution
For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
Accessing Collections
The vast majority of the items in our collections are not online. The Society owns thousands of archival collections viewable in our Archives reading room. To view and conduct research in our collections, visit us in person.
Washington School Hobby Show
May 27, 1949
Pat Rohr, 16 North Bassett Street, standing next to her salt and pepper shaker collection at the Washington School Hobby Show. Stan Fix, holding a model airplane, views her collection.
We Saw You . . . Watching Dairy Caravan
February 1, 1955
School children from the Madison area are among the first visitors at the opening of the $100,000 Dairy Caravan at the State Capitol. Students from Waunakee are shown at one exhibit identifying var...
Dykstra House Nursery School
March 8, 1944
Betty Frey, student at the University of Wisconsin, and two children, Geraldine Myers and Barrie Anderson, playing in a nursery school established on the third floor of the home of University presi...
Play Scene
July 10, 1948
Janet Kuhlman, Cherlyn Litchfield, and Larry Litchfield are modeling clay inside Marquette School.
Marquette School Family Fun Night
March 14, 1949
Marquette school gym teacher, Glenn Hall, referees a game of "sisters" at Marquette school family fun night.
Child Salon of Art
May 7, 1944
Billy Gorman, third grade student at Emerson School, is showing Robert Murray, sixth grade student at Lowell School, his picture displayed in the Child Salon of Art at the Madison Free Library (Mad...
